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

  • flop_leash_973@lemmy.worldEnglish
    635·
    9 months ago

    In my opinion anything that is just a frontend for Youtube is just a bandaid, and if they get to much attention Google will make using them increasingly untenable.

    The real answer is moving to competing platforms outside of Googles control.

    • rush@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      Currently that is quite hard, because despite YouTube being an utterly insane business model it has prevailed so far.

      I would love for an alternative, I personally really like PeerTube and the Fediverse in general, but mass adoption ain’t there yet :(

    • newIdentity@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      0·
      9 months ago

      That’s not possible though. There simply is no content on other platforms and they generally aren’t as good as YouTube and probably never will be.

      The only platform I could see to rival YouTube in the future is Twitch

      • HerrLewakaas@feddit.deEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Lemmy users are just delusional in that regard. You can’t just switch away from Google, its not the tech that makes in great, its the content. It’s the same with messengers, if your friends arent there how useful is that foss messenger really?

        Thankfully the only creator I regularly watch that does non-educational videos uploads them on their own website. For everything else nebula actually is an alternative, although I’m not subscribed to it at the moment