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You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Am I just insanely lucky or something? I just use chrome and it hasn't complained about my adblock once, and I watch a lot of YouTube.

[–] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

They're probably A/B testing it on only part of the users. I didn't get it for a long time either, but when it appeared the first time it just kept showing up again and again after that.

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[–] jlow@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is Libredirect working good for you? Every few month I turn it on for a couple of services (YT, Wikipedia, Reddit, Github, Twitchan) and turn it off after a few days because I can't be bothered trying to find instances that work, it's just a constant pain for me.

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[–] cricbuzz@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FYI, that 'Piped' link in your post ain't workin homie

Looks like you put in "https://hexbear.net/post/**https://github.com/teampiped/piped"

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[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

just as a heads up i did the workaround linked in OP's post and it worked for me

piped fucking rules tho

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