YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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    5 months ago

    Ive had no issues with Brave Browser on my Desktop, but NewPipe on Mobile has been all over the place the past few weeks.

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      5 months ago

      Pipepipe on f-droid is kept much more up to date in my experience. It’s a fork so basically the same

    • ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      Every other post about Ad blocking has someone pitching Brave.

      Brave has experienced some controversies over time, including the CEO having problematic political views; alleged sales of copyrighted data for AI model training; auto-completing typed-in URLs to affiliate links that generate revenue for Brave; content creators receiving unsolicited donations they couldn’t collect; and automatically installing their VPN service without the user’s consent.

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      5 months ago

      NewPipe had to deal with some thing YouTube did to break things. And they fixed them super quick. Last time I had a video not work, I visited the GitHub site and saw there was a new release from 11 minutes ago. Installed it and the video worked perfectly.