• funkless_eck@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      is there some list of all the options? I would be cool with having multiple apps if they don’t break them all at the same time

  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    If you are a little experienced and know how to deal with Docker, you could self-host Invidious yourself on your local PC or laptop. Works fine for me for multiple months.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    91·
    2 months ago

    After scrolling for a bit on Lemmy I saw a post that Grayjay had a desktop app now too. No need for ad blockers etc. Just use Grayjay! It’s awesome! (no yt shorts cancer for example, and multi platform support so not just yt) Grayjay.app

    Link to desktop version website

    • Mwa@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      That’s so cool I might download the desktop app and maybe keep pipepipe on my phone I wanted something that isn’t Electron.
      Edit: Nvm its electron 🤢

    • Showroom7561@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Just tried Grayjay on desktop last night. Syncing with mobile is awesome.

      But on desktop, I’ll continue to use freetube because i can block channels (or even content by keyword) from showing up on my feed.

      If you only watch content that you’re sibscribed to, then this shouldn’t even be a concern.

  • Lord Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    201·
    2 months ago

    So what, Google? You violate my privacy, I violate your terms of service, I’d say we’re even.

    I don’t think they can actually have an ad blocker installed on your machine be a violation of their terms of service. It’s on your device. It’s like Ford would say driving one of their models with a green shirt is a violation of their terms of service. What’s next, your camera will be monitored by Google and you violate their terms of service if you turn your head away whenever an ad is playing? Well, yeah, they wanted to pause ads when your eyes would turn away from the screen, so they really are that evil.

    Google was such a nice company at first, now it’s pure evil. Just like all the other mega corps. Open source and Piracy is the future.

    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      If you are a little experienced and know how to deal with Docker, you could self-host Invidious yourself on your local PC or laptop. Works fine for me for multiple months.

      You’d be still using the videos of YouTube, but without their ad-flooded UI.

    • gedaliyah@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      171·
      2 months ago

      Unfortunately, I don’t think there is a mature enough FOSS video streaming platform. it turns out video hosting is really really expensive and complicated.

  • Buffalox@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1311·
    2 months ago

    If you are using Firefox and have ublock Origin:
    Go to: tools->Add-on and themes->uBlock Origin, in the menu beside the on-off toggle choose preferences. Uncheck uBlock filters. and click apply.
    Now choose a youtube video in another tab.
    Go back to uBlock preferences, and enable the filters again and apply.
    Now you can play video in YouTube again without commercials.

    If you don’t have Firefox install it, and If you don’t have uBlock Origin install it.

    • cobysev@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      2 months ago

      Whenever I get this, I open the settings for uBlock Origin (click the gear icon in the Firefox extension) and manually update everything in the filter lists. Just click the clock symbol at the end of each item and it’ll spin for a minute, then turn green.

      After that, I completely refresh my YouTube page (Ctrl+F5 on PC; close tab and open a new tab on mobile) and it will load videos again.

      Google and uBlock Origin are in an arms race, trying to one-up one another. Once you get a notice from YouTube, usually uBlock Origin has a fix for it within the day.

      Tech notes for those interested: When you browse to a webpage, it stores a copy of the site on your PC, so if you go back to the site later or hit refresh on the page, it will load the local files instead of downloading the whole page from scratch again.

      But if you want to force a website to load completely from scratch instead of grabbing recently cached files, hit Ctrl+F5. You need to do this to fully reload the YouTube page, it else you’ll just get the notice page again.