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Mashable reports that users ran into a black screen on YouTube, and that it stayed for about 6 seconds before the video began playing. The reports indicate it affected several browsers including Firefox, Edge, Vivaldi.

Some users joked that they would rather see a black screen than an ad. While that's certainly a better experience, it does waste precious seconds of our time. A simple workaround for the black screen on YouTube is to just refresh the page, hit F5 as soon as the page starts loading. uBlock Origin's filters were updated with a patch to resolve the problem, the add-on updates its filters automatically. If you are still experiencing the black screen issue, just open the extension's dashboard and manually update the filters. This tug-of-war is getting annoying, but it appears to me that Google's efforts are actively promoting the use of ad blockers, instead of attracting new subscribers.

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (6 children)

I'm seeing a lot of comments about Youtube frontends. Don't get me wrong. They're nice and all, but we need some alternatives. At this point in time. We have two of them Odysee & Rumble. If you're tried of Youtube's bullshit. Alternatives are the way to go.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I think its important to highlight that Odysee and Rumble are both "free speech" platforms that neo-nazis love to use to platform their calls for violence.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

New platforms get the fringe content first, because the vanilla content can happily use the old incumbents.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Here's a few more in a reddit thread.

I thought Odyssey was just gun nuts? When did the shitters get there?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Lemmy is also a "free speech" platform. Yet, we're all still here.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Neo-Nazis use Lemmy as a platform for their calls to violence?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

I know they use Mastodon to do it. Truth Social runs on the Mastodon software.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Pretty sure the fediverse is VERY left-leaning lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It is. Which makes it even weirder that black people have a horrible experience on Fedi with loads of racist harassment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Horseshoe theory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

This right here is the community that made the lemmy developers themselves write code to specifically censor this community.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

There's a big difference between a protocol (what you refer to as Lemmy is actually a protocol called ActivityPub) and a centralized organization (Odyssee). Many / most Lemmy instances will ban Nazi posts, many also defederating from instances which allow them. However, the fact that it's a protocol means it's still free speech. This is IMO a very good system to have, and emulates real world free speech dynamics.

Odyssee, however, allowing Nazi stuff is not okay since they are not a protocol. They're the equivalent of a Lemmy instance. Lots of people are against Hexbear, for example, myself included.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Odysee is a platform built upon LBRY, a protocol for content distribution. So your statement is incorrect.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

although to be fair, that is just what's going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

there is also peertube which is fedirated

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Sadly, too large to die. 99% of content creators willl stick to what the majority use. I'm just using Grayjay (Android) & Invidious (desktop) to watch all my content.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

lack of content and engagement are the main issue and Youtube reign top because of that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

yt-dlp is also a great alternative, since you can just stuff it into the backend of something like jellyfin and have it work.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

No? It downloads the videos. Your video player is the "frontend".

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

it's a backend, the front end would be something like jellyfin, obviously the shitpost here being that this was a topic about frontends, if you want my opinion though, all frontends are dead, and backends are where it's at. You can even integrate yt-dlp as a backend to something like VLC so that it operates as a real frontend.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

not technically a fronted. however, if you use it mainly for downloading YT content, it will run into the same problem as many frontends.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

it will, theoretically, but it's singular backend, and development efforts can be focused on it specifically, rather than something like vanced, which is integrating more heavily with the yt UI itself, whereas yt-dlp doesn't care at all, and just rips the content spit out.

I would hope most front ends are using yt-dlp as the backend, but i suspect they're just tacking shit on top of the youtube web ui instead, unfortunately.