Eh, it only lasted for a few hours, then I updated the ublock origin filters and things were back to normal. In the meanwhile I just streamed youtube videos via a media player that had builtin yt-dlp (smplayer) support.
It'll always be a game of cat and mouse.
this post was submitted on 09 Jun 2025
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In my case a couple of warnings popped up and videos still played when those were closed, then they stopped showing up altogether. We'll see how it goes, I suppose.
This ends when Youtube is subscription-only, probably.
For the few creators I follow that are on peertube I always make sure to watch them there, but youtube's pull is just too big. I'll use whatever method that skips the ads, but as soon as a subscription is the only way to avoid them, eh. Maybe that's the day I "move" to Albania or some other country where there aren't ads on YT.
Yeah, I'm always torn on that one. Technically I watch more Youtube than many of the streaming services I do pay a subscription for. It shouldn't be a bridge too far to move one of the ones I use least to YT.
At the same time the idea that YT is a fundamentally user-driven, social platform is still there. It's very debatable at this point, but it's at the core of the idea, so it's a hard adjustment to make.
And Google going ham on trying to close loopholes and enshittify their closed platform with no recourse is such a reversal of that pitch it's very hard not to go "well, screw you" and see how far you can push back.
yt-dlp
it or a front-end to it is always #2 on the list of applications to install on my own new os installs--right behind firefox.
i don't use yt much, but it's sure nice to have. i can just drag over or copy/paste urls or video id right from a serp and never have to give google a even single page view.
most the commercial 'free with ads' stuff (like the library of 'hollywood' movies and tv they have) that is wrapped in drm is on or rotates to other free sites (where adblockers or pihole work).
I will not watch ads. That's the first, unbreakable premise. If the service does not provide videos, I leave the service.
Thanks YouTube for the evolutionary arms race with ad blockers resulting in truly amazing ad blockers. I hope this is used as evidence for your monopoly with 90% of the market for online advertising. Time to standard oil Alphabet.
I love watching YouTube kill itself off.
Once I get my NAS setup this year, I'll start actively downloading and backing up the videos I like from yt.
Huh. I got a couple of popups the other day. A quick refresh fixed it though. In my experience, YT has been miserably failing its war on adblockers. I've yet to disable mine to watch a video.