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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 hours ago

Hasn't happened with Bing yet.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

I use Firefox on Linux Mint, none of this happens and if it does you fix it by copy pasting a code on the settings of ublock

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What code? I am on Fedora+Forefox and it does happen all tge time :-/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Search for it, is a code you paste on the my filters tab of Ublock add on in Firefox

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Grayjay by futo just released a desktop app.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (9 children)

If you're on desktop, download FreeTube. No more ads, ever. No more jittery youtube videos even though you have 300mbs down, you can download any video in app at max speeds, and its not algorithm fed. I imported my subscriptions, and now if I want to see something new I can use the not broken search function. Its like early early youtube and its wonderful!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

I still use yt-dlp to download because I don't understand Freetube's options. It's either only audio or video

Also if you're on Linux and you get a white screen during playback (has been an issue since 0.22) this fix works for me: freetube --enable-features=''

edit: posting a vertical pic messes up the webpage a bit. If it's annoying tell me

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

That's a side effect of YouTube messing with the streams to try to break downloaders. Obvs a dedicated downloader like ytdlp handles YouTube jerking the chain around better than a tool intended for viewing.

My understanding is you're pretty much only gonna get those broken up streams especially for piratey content like music videos and tv shows. Ytdlp will join with ffmpeg.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago

Seconded. Tis a beautiful experience. And if you are currently using FreeTube, please throw a donation their way. They are putting a lot of work in to this app.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Freetube is great but it's also a source of endless frustration. Like if you walk away from your computer the stream times out and it won't resume. Then it says "reload" and they never implemented a reload button so you have to navigate to something else. Except their navigation doesn't work quite right so sometimes if you click too fast it stays on the new page after you try to go back to the one you wanted to reload. Rawr. (GitHub issues 1005, 1425, 1500, 1958, 4062, 4409, 5019, 5152, 6136, 6201)

I use youtube-local which is great, but it's more susceptible to breakage which is why I'm currently back on freetube and very very very frustrated.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago

If the garbage takes itself out, I won't complain. YT doesn't see how the cable companies dying is the exact same future it is racing to emulate.

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

Fun fact, it seems this ban is IP based. (they're still testing in waves with a subset of overall users)

I switched to a new IP with my VPN, and while still signed in to the same YouTube account on the same video without ever clearing my cache or cookies, the block disappeared.

Genius work from the developers over at YouTube.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think that's probably because ublock fixed the filters while u were doing this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

It was early yesterday, before filters had been updated, 30 seconds after a full purge and re-selecting of all relevant filter lists, done within the span of 2 minutes, so I doubt it was those.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

YouTube is not replaceable because it's the only reliable way for VOD creators to monetize their content effectively without a paywall. No other VOD platform comes close.

If creators can't monetize their content effectively, they're not going to upload to that platform.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago (9 children)

So sad YouTube died, it was such a useful service.

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