• Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    For quite some time now I’ve had the issue that the video simply refuses to stop playing requiring me to refresh the page. Might be an issue with one of the add-ons too though.

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    Just use front ends if you don’t care about interacting with the content. It has been a few years since I am used to using them and I dread being forced to go back to youtube again.

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        1 year ago

        I assume he’s asking because the EU has a bunch of laws that protects users from this kind of shitty behavior. When I went to the EU many of the apps I use became less shitty.

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          Does the EU actually have any laws that would prevent a company from doing whatever they want to try to fight ad blockers? I mean it would be really cool if they did, but I would be shocked if any government required a company not to try to prevent users from circumventing the way they make money.

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        1 year ago

        Because EU has a track record of putting stop to shitty practices by major corporations.

        Would not surprise me if they leave EU out of this just to prevent a potential conflict.

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    Sounds like a bug in the filters used by Adblock and Adblock Plus. Afaik uBO or Adguard aren’t affected.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    For a while, I’ve had problems with a patched yt app. Been going on for probably months at this point, but even with the latest ReVanced patches I still end up with, if lucky, video plays for 10 seconds before infinite loading. Makes me have to use the PipePipe (NewPipe fork) app more than I want, but at least I get ad free videos.

    I’d use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

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      I’d use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

      I’m not interested in commenting, but I do want to keep track of my history (across multiple devices). I wish there were a privacy-respecting solution that could do that.

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        https://grayjay.app/

        By Louis Rossman’s startup “Futo”. I have a lot of respect for that dude from his right-to-repair activism, but despite that it’s just a good privacy-respecting video app and worth paying for, IMO.

    • ugo@feddit.it
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      Use uBlock Origin. Not AdBlock, not AdBlock Plus, not any other crapware. Looking at AdBlock website they have a blurb about only keeping anonymised data and never selling it and yada yada yada, because it goes against their company ethics.

      Company ethics. AdBlock is owned by a company. A for-profit entity. How do you think they make their money? Either they sell the data they have gathered (why does an ad blocking extension need to gather user data?) or they have agreements with ad companies.

      Compare the websites of AdBlock and uBlock Origin. The first thing on uBlock Origin website is a link to the publicly available source code. That’s trustworthy. AdBlock’s website has a handpicked list of 5 star reviews.

      TL; DR: please switch to uBlock Origin and ditch AdBlock, they (the company behind AdBlock) likely have agreements with advertisers (including Google and YouTube) to make money. Your data is being harvested by using AdBlock. You cannot look at the code for AdBlock. AdBlock is not trustworthy.

      • Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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        1 year ago

        That is way too much faff if you are watching youtube daily.

        Get something like FreeTube, FOSS with all the ad blocking and sponsor blocking automatically enabled. And your subscriptions and other settings are all saved locally.

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        1 year ago

        I just tried that and it’s not working for me. MPV just closes itself and VLC gives me an error message. Do I need to do more that just drag and drop the URL?

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          For VLC you need to go to Media > Open Network Stream (or Ctrl+N), then paste the youtube link there.

          For MPV use command line mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videocode

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            VLC still gives me the same error message.

            For MPV, it gives me the following error message:

            `mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3e9_l2oGxdw [ytdl_hook] ERROR: [youtube] 3e9_l2oGxdw: Unable to extract uploader id; please report this issue on https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues?q= , filling out the appropriate issue template. Confirm you are on the latest version using yt-dlp -U [ytdl_hook] youtube-dl failed: unexpected error occurred Failed to recognize file format.

            Exiting… (Errors when loading file) `

              • vortexal@sopuli.xyz
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                Well, while MPV might be outdated, I already mentioned that I was able to get YouTube videos working by downloading a newer version of yt-dlp and creating a conf file for MPV that links to it. While I was looking into the problem, the versions available in apt for all three of these are outdated by at least a year, possible 3 years for MPV. I’m not sure if this is just a Linux Mint issue but I have noticed that a lot of the software both preinstalled and available in it’s repository, are pretty outdated.

                I might try downloading the newer versions of these later. I got MPV working and that’s good enough for me right now.

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                  Mint is known to use old software in its repositories as it’s based on Ubuntu LTS. The flatpak mpv should work though. flatpak install flathub io.mpv.Mpv and the run it with flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ

                  If you don’t want to type flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv all the time, you can create an alias in your ~/.bashrc file. For example: alias play='flatpak run io.mpv.Mpv'. (After editing your bashrc file, run: source ~/.bashrc to activate the change). Then you can run it with play https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ.

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            I got YouTube videos working in MPV. While I have no idea if the way I did it was technically not correct, all I did was download the newest version of yt-dlp from github and created a file name mpv.conf which links to the yt-dlp python file. I was also able to set a preferred resolution using that conf file.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.social
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    YouTube started throwing playback errors for me this last week on pc (Firefox with ublock and pihole).

    I was able to get around it by opening links in a container tab without being signed in. New container for each link

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    I run uOrigin, flashblock, JS disabled, No Overlays, and DDG’s privacy ad on’s and I have no problems with YT

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      More and more Im trusting the fact that ublock origin will correct these issues in short order

      • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
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        Youtube must really hate those guys…

        Makes you wonder how long it will take, before Raymond Hill plummets to his death from a basement window.

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          While the developer doesn’t accept donations, they do encourage donating to the people maintaining the block lists. I’ve contributed in the past and would happily keep doing so.

          It would be a shame if the devs maintaining the block lists stop doing what they’re doing because it’s not sustainable enough for them.

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              From this link:

              "I do not want the administrative workload that comes with donations. I do not want the project to become in need of funding in any way: no dedicated home page + no forum = no cost = no need for financial support. I want to be free to move on to something else if ever I get tired of working on these projects (no donations = no expectations).

              Have a thought for the maintainers of the various lists. These lists are everything. I can not emphasize this enough."

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Good riddance, I can’t wait until I’m free from the instant gratification of videos by fancy ad vessels being narcissistic on the internet. The move to video and yes consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

    I already use sponsorblock, ublock and dearrow alongside Vanced patches, piped and newpipe on mobile. Quitting YT is the next step.

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      It’s happening because people allow it to happen. I recently unsubbed from a channel because they were beginning to use community posts to promote sponsors. Like a giant fucking post with complete BS like “I always wanted to do X video and now thanks to RAID SHADOW LEGENDS include huge pic it is now reality. Thank you RAID SHADOW LEGENDS and with code BullshitPromoFromYT you get 10% off the newest hat or whatever shit they sell in that game”. Some people complained and asked the creator not to do this, but they were quickly flooded by the hordes of “they have to make money somehow”-drones. Despicable.

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        they were quickly flooded by the hordes of “they have to make money somehow”-drones.

        On the one hand, fuck the comment drones.

        On the other hand, that’s the freelance/gig economy for you. Everyone’s out there hustling until they can reach their passive income workless lifestyle dreams.

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    YouTube will not stop until the site is Unusable by anyone without over paying for every second they are there. YouTube as a free site is doomed

    • r3df0x ✡️✝☪️@7.62x54r.ru
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      If they push hard enough eventually there will be a replacement.

      Federation could solve this. All you need is one flagship instance that doesn’t allow uploads, but it allows users to create accounts and playlists to act as “the” site for the federated network and then content creators can start their own instances.

  • HelixDab2@lemm.ee
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    Still workign for me. I’m using FIrefox in incognito mode, a VPN (I use a VPN for everything), and uBlock Origin.

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    Does anyone know an alternative YT app for BOTH Android phones and Android TV that allows for synched playlists?

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        I don’t have exact numbers, (just anecdotals) but SponsorBlock has some basic stats, and so far they’ve saved people over 3962 years worth of time. By dividing that by how many skips there are, (3,608,826,265) you get roughly 34.6452092 seconds. Per skipped segment, which videos often have multiple of.

        This doesn’t include videos that are purely promotional sponsored videos disguised as content, (see modern LTT or RyanToyReviews) video content that would break the coherency of the video if skipped or actual non-video ads that are becoming more and more frequent.

        SponsorBlock also has options to skip filler in videos, which is hit or miss since it’s all community submitted, but…