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PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by rush@lemm.ee to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[-] db2@sopuli.xyz 11 points 11 months ago

I'll stick with revanced, there really isn't anything they can do to stop it long term.

[-] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 11 points 11 months ago

Revanced is pretty much perfect for my needs.

And SmartTube on my Android TV.

[-] Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.one 9 points 11 months ago

Just a note for people wanting to install it:

The only official website is www.revanced.app and www.github.com/revanced , all other websites are unoffincial and can sometimes spread malware. Unfortunetley the official site has terrible SEO and shows up very low in search results. Also the revanced team dosen't distibute prebuilt apks for copyright reasons, you have to patch the stock apk yourself.