I use Firefox and the uBlock Origin addon as my default browser setup. It works great…except for on youtube. I used to use it happily for youtube with all Ads blocked, but two recent youtube changes made me have to use a different browser and extension, just for youtube.

  1. Firefox users started noticing degraded performance on youtube vs when they viewed youtube with Chrome.

  2. uBlock Origin users in Chrome and Firefox appear to be being targeted with an intermittent covert punishment of having any videos above 360p throttled so that they buffer heavily.

So my current approach, just for youtube, is Chrome with Clear Skies ad skipper extension which gets me good performance and no ads.

What is your setup for youtube without ads?

I’m also interested in youtube alternatives, especially for music.

  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Firefox, uBlock Origin, adguard DNS, sponsorblock (crowdsourced video sections with auto skip), DeArrow (crowdsourced clickbait replacement), nyancat seek/progress bar, playback speed control, Dark Reader.

    Same setup on Windows desktop and my Android devices.

    I’ve noticed videos stopping and buffering after the first few seconds, but not always, and seemingly less so again. It was acceptable to me.

  • Davokin@feddit.de
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    10 months ago

    I switched to Arch Linux as my operating system a few years ago, and here I use the FreeTube app from the AUR. It’s a third party frontend for YouTube, similar to Nitter for Twitter (X).

    And for work (Windows) I watch YouTube via Invidious instances, e.g. https://yewtu.be also a third party frontend for YouTube

    • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
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      10 months ago

      It’s a third party frontend for YouTube, similar to Nitter for Twitter (X).

      if I remember correctly, it scrapes the Youtube page directly by default, unless you explicitly enable Invidious proxy. only then it would be comparable to a third front-end.(since that’s when it actually uses one).

  • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove “accept cookies” banners on sites.

  • zerofk@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Vivaldi with built-in ad block. Every once in a while YouTube changes something and ads get through for a couple of days. Then a Vivaldi update fixes it again quickly. I assume Vivaldi is too small a target for YouTube to care more.

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
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    10 months ago

    uBlock Origin’s ben working fine for me on Firefox, but then again i don’t consume that much youtube nor would i bother.

  • Thorny_Insight@lemm.eeEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Firefox and uBlock Origin works just fine for blocking YouTube ads. You probably have some other add-on interfering with it that triggers the adblock detection. Restore your adblocker default setting and disable other extensions for YouTube and it should work.

  • beatnixxx@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    Chromium with uBlock origin mostly does the trick for me. There’s the usual back and forth of youtube occasionally getting ads past uBlock.

    Firefox with uBlock for everything else.

  • Traister101@lemmy.todayEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Brave (yes I’m aware ya’ll don’t need to yap at me).

    Yep seriously Brave all on its own blocks YouTube ads and no performance issues (likely thanks to being Chromium based).

    To address some complaints about Brave you can uh turn that stuff off. I don’t like Crypto so I… have all of that junk disabled. Doesn’t bug me whatsoever. Opt in ads (for their stupid crypto coin) are disabled by default (or least where when I installed). And the CEO is a bad person (surprising I know)