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or nah, just use piped on firefox :3
YouTube Premium y’all.
Lmao, imagine actually paying for youtube premium
Yeah, imagine it. It’s pretty nice.
I have already quit reddit, I can live without youtube.
LBRY/Peertube master race
The amount of stuff I watched on YouTube was 0.
Honestly it’s about time the internet grows up a bit and stops relying on horrible video tutorials.
For certain specific use cases a video tutorial can be incredibly useful… like replacing specific parts on appliances or cars after diagnosing the problem.
Much of the content there is just noise to me too but there’s definitely some shit I find valuable.
Fun fact: people use YouTube for things other than tutorials
I’m sorry - video tutorials are so much easier for me to learn from than reading. I am 40 and have a disability. It’s far easier for me to comprehend a video than reading - and since I can’t have someone come to my home and teach or show me all the things I want to learn how to do - I watch videos.
I think the issue is corporate greed - not people wanting to watch cat videos and learn how to unclog a sink or watch someone cook something.
Why would we not use one of the most convienent ways to teach yourself skills? Thats incredibly backwards
Do Out have time to talk about our lord and savior LibreTube?
I hate google but can you stop posting the same shitty memes in different formats
Nice try google employee!
my man literally the first four posts I see are just complaining about google adblock, and I keep seeing it over time yes we get it you don’t like ads and google is adding adblock. move to firefox/ublock (or no ublock if you want to support the content creators) and let it go imo, there aren’t even that many ads on youtube, I barely notice them normally cuz theres only one every 3 videos or so and it’s like 5 seconds long for a 20 min video (if there are more ads inside a video I’m pretty sure that usually means the creator put them there, not youtube)
Mainstream media promotes Chrome everywhere possible. The last bastion of promoting Firefox is FOSS community platforms. The fuck do you expect, us to stay quiet and “let it go”?
Not what I’m saying I hate chrome too, I just get tired of seeing essentially the same post over and over
I never stopped using Firefox, and I never had a problem with anything but Government sites.
That’s weird, usually government websites will work in old IE version without any issue.
I think it’s a Java thing?
Exactly. Usually gov sites are optimised for i.e 8, because accessibility is critical.
You can’t just expect people have a super up to date browser.
This is the mentality where I live anyway.
My future browser will be a terminal prompt
You can use Lynx. Here is the google homepage:
that’s pretty cool!
Browsh is pretty cool for a text-based browser.
Nice. but Unfortunately WEI will detect the header of the request and block site access even with a terminal browser. The end is near.
Changing request headers is a trivial thing.
That’s when we fork the protocol to remove the garbage.
SearXNG+Peertube/Odyssee+Mastodon+Lemmy/kbin+Radarr++nyaa.si+sonarr+ProtonMail+Krita+Monkrus
Arr me hearties.
Spoof the header?
WEI will request a authentication token that will be provided by a third part software like Play Store in Android to certificate that your request is made by you a human and not by a bot so technically spoof the header agent will not be effective. Dark times awaits us my friend. Other problem is how deep embedded in the system this trust agent that provides these tokens will be. It may be embedded in kernel like Easy Anti Cheat for example and this will make the things even worse because they can classify many devices like " not approved " just by not meet software or hardware requirements
Compile a kernel?
It’s no so simple, man. The vast majority of users don’t have the skills to do this and I think even if you compile the kernel of your personalized system it will not circumvent WEI and it will brake some functionality somehow
Develop an API which spoofs authorization authentication tokens? Like man in the middle?
Pi-hole
worth running even if it didn’t block a single incoming ad. the amount of shit that phones home is truly absurd.
Doesn’t really work for youtube, as some of the ads are served from the same server as the content.
The pi hole doesn’t by itself, but adding in ublock origin is typically enough to get the job done. I basically never see youtube ads outside of the sponsored sections and I guess I could use sponsor block for that
I dont use a pi hole (but am heavily considering setting one up).
Right now I use newsboat rss to “subscribe” to whoever I want. When it opens Librewolf browser, a redirect extension takes me to an invidious instance of my choosing, the NoScript extension blocks everything, but the url is all i really need.
I copy that url. I use yt-dlp to download video from invidious via my terminal emulator. Sponsorblock flags, give me captions flag, and if I’m willing to wait the extra time and give it the extra hard drive space, the best video flag. No ads, no sponsors, no JavaScript tracking me. Pure fuck marketers goodness.
Thats a great setup lol
And uBlock is about to become useless for Youtube as it won’t be WEI Compliant.
Which is another reason why we don’t use Chrome and why we wholeheartedly support other video hosting initiatives : )
“Youtube requires a browser that supports Web Environment Integrity in order to provide you with the best quality in streaming content. Please upgrade to a browser supprting Web Environment Integrity. Chrome <link to chrome> and Edge <link to edge> are our recommended browsers”
Or words to that effect. And it’ll likely gradually become the same for most advert funded sites.
EDIT: Actually I don’t think this will become a thing until it is hitting their bottom line. That is if enough people switch away from chromium based browsers. Just like it did for ad blockers.
These scumbag companies filled to the brim with more business degrees than ideas can go ahead and keep trying this shit, but I’m never playing ball. In fact, they’ve got me back into pirating when I had stopped for about a decade or more.
Same, and I’m openly encouraging those I know to do the same or leech from me.
uBlock Origin does away with them. PiHole is more and more outclassed by the architecture hosts like Youtube deploy anyway.
I’ll torrent YT videos before I watch ads.
Both YouTube and Chrome are bloatwares in my Samsung smartphone. I happily use NewPipe!
Looks like Black Mirror was not only prediction
I’m just gonna be outside off this.
More like “you will use chromium and you will watch ads.”
Google has learned Embrace Extend Extinguish.
They’re game plan is to kill their competition in the long run.
Sorry, a little bit OOTL. I remember about Chrome making adblock-blockers. But could someone explain the relation to youTube?
YouTube has ads and google’s new WEI api will force browsers to comply.
Web Environment Integrity (WEI) is an api that will validate your browser and hardware to ensure you’re not tampering with webpages in any meaningful way.
extensions and unapproved browsers will be gutted.
I would not be surprised if regular people tolerated 5+ minute ad breaks for a short video. Too much bs has been normalized for that to be much of a surprise anymore.
Like a frog slowly heating in a pot of water, you can get used to just about anything if you’re apathetic enough.
How many verification cans have you had to drink today sir?
OK, move along. It’s an old reference, but it’s built on solid greentext.
