- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?
You must log in or register to comment.
User-Agent changer fixes this issue completely for me
If you’re experiencing this issue, unfortunately, you only have two options: Either disable your ad blocker or pay for a YouTube premium subscription
Oh wow, they managed to not say the quiet part out loud.
I’ve always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.
firefox and ublock. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.
Or Newpipe
or Revanced
or Freetube.
Or uYou on iOS
Or SmartTube on android TV
You don’t have to jailbreak an apple device anymore, side loading works?
You don’t have to jailbreak, you just have to use AltStore and “renew” the app every 7 days. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass in all honesty but it’s still better than watching ads.
yeah, FF with ublock, sponsorblock and return dislike on PC works fine.
revanced on mobile works perfectly as well.
youtube can stick it up their ass.
Youtube is slow as hell regardless of adblock or not, bro i can have a freshly installed chrome browser and it runs like the server hamster died a week ago and they replaced it with a platypus that has artists
Try Firefox
Its my main browser…
I used chrome as a metric because its from the same shitshow company
YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it’s what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.
Agreed, Invidious is so much lighter than YouTube that I’ve had sucess watching on onion instances via Tor.
I set my user agent to a google bot. Everything works other than steam chat.
I have firefox and ublock and they’re not always working, so I just open the video url in any video player that supports it. In potplayer I just copy the video url and use ctrl+v in the main video window and it opens with no issues.
ff2mpv adds a button in the addon bar and in the context menu to open a video in mpv. It’s awesome and removes the manual copy and pasting of the url.
ttps://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv
Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
I use UBO and have definitely noticed videos stuttering in the last week or two.
People should use Firefox and uBlock Origin
Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).
What exactly doesn’t work?
Using Firefox and uBlock Origin, and following uBlock’s instructions re: resetting and updating. Getting timeouts and popups from YT regardless.
I’m sorry to hear that because I had similar problem but clearing cookies & cached web content option ended up working for me. Hope you find something that work because it was awful to experience ads after so long. I track stuff I subscribe to with TubeSync but still like to search for new topics & the ads were annoying.
Hmmm, I’m not seeing these problems at all. It’s probably worth reporting
I always assume that people in a community like this are using them, but clearly such is not the case
So often I see people asking questions and I know that if they were using Firefox and uBlock, they wouldn’t have the problems they’re having
I feel the same.
Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.
and brave if you are not interrsted toó much on workarrounds?
But brave is based con Chrome.V8
Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)
FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.
I haven’t seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it’s no different than hitting youtube directly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
“Checked to see if there was any delay” is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.
That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.
OK. I’m not claiming google isn’t trying. I’m claiming it doesn’t matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.
I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.
Same here. uBO + Firefox
If there’s been a delay, it’s not been noticeable to me
That’s a separate issue. The bugs on AdBlock And AdBlock Plus extensions affect not only YouTube but other websites as well (as said by uBO dev). This isn’t on google but the extensions themselves.
Source?
I have post history of going through their JS, this is a Google-sucks thing, full stop.
uBO Dev already shared it in the twitter thread but here you go
https://gitlab.com/adblockinc/ext/adblockplus/adblockplusui/-/issues/1576#note_1725604837
use NewPipe if you’re on Android
Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don’t care that there’s workarounds, they’d rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.
Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don’t really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.
You assume people are rational, they are not
https://farside.link/youtube.com
search github “invidious”
Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos
Even if they throttled my speed so that I’m wasting the same amount of time waiting for the site to load as i would be by watching an ad, I still win because I didn’t have to watch an ad.
