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At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by qaz@lemmy.world to c/memes@lemmy.ml

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[-] kamen@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[-] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 hours ago

Now It's gone

[-] teije9 1 points 2 hours ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 hours ago

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

[-] trouble@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

So does brave

[-] dev_null@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 hours ago

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 hours ago

Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.

[-] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 8 points 8 hours ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 75 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[-] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

[-] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[-] N00b22@lemmy.ml 9 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[-] Chev@lemmy.world 4 points 10 hours ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 3 points 16 hours ago

Well, down the list we go...

[-] toynbee@lemmy.world 25 points 21 hours ago

We're friends?

[-] Zwiebel@feddit.org 30 points 20 hours ago

👉👈

[-] bruhduh@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

[-] affiliate@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

we’re all friends here

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 13 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Also relevant:

alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)

[-] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[-] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[-] SnotFlickerman 157 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it's already working again.

Blessings to Gorhill

[-] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 33 points 17 hours ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[-] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 16 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

[-] neurospice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 15 hours ago

It's gone because people were using it irresponsibly.

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/bd7ce41224

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2958

[-] jkozaka@lemm.ee 61 points 1 day ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it's the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.

[-] TheTetrapod@lemmy.world 18 points 11 hours ago

Sorry for the down votes, you're 100% valid. YouTube Premium benefits me and the content creators I watch. Sure, it's more complicated than that, but everything is, and sometimes you just have to make choices that make your life a little easier.

[-] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 5 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Doesn't bother me, I know that it's an insanely hot take on Lemmy and reddit. I appreciate the vocal backup though.

[-] Lazhward@lemmy.world 5 points 9 hours ago

I paid for premium, until they wanted PayPal to share my address with Google.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 68 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I’d probably be paying for YouTube, if it were run by a normal media company instead of the world’s largest spy network and personal data broker. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my credit card information.

[-] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 4 hours ago

Data gathering/brokering and payment information security are not really connected. PCI compliance standards are well standardized and fairly strict.

I would trust Google to handle payment information securely over any ‘media’ company.

If personal data was regulated at even the fraction of what payment data goes through we would all be better off.

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 21 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Yeah I don't really care about value when it comes to giving money to the guys who work with the NSA and CIA to find ways to more thoroughly spy on every user 24/7, and turned every search into "You asked for x, here's a dozen pages of what the State Department thinks you should have searched for instead"

Not to mention their genocide profiteering: https://www.mintpressnews.com/project-nimbus-billion-google-amazon-partners-israel/280087/

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 10 points 23 hours ago

It’s not even about the money, it’s literally about the credit card information, and the massive amount of data linked to it.

[-] Anafabula@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 21 hours ago

I would pay for a lot more things if I could do it anonymously

[-] rigatti@lemmy.world 6 points 23 hours ago

Do they not already know who you are and what you purchase anyway? I'm wondering how much of a difference it makes.

[-] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 23 hours ago

Whether they do or not, Google doesn’t know that that person is the same person as the one who is using YouTube.

[-] Grapho@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago

Fair

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 10 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yup.

Family plan is 22$ for ad free yt and music subscription for 5 or 6 people

I get that Google bad an all that, but it's a good deal

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 13 points 19 hours ago

Personally, considering I can get it for free, and that Google bad, $22 is a bad deal for me. I'd rather donate $20 to the groups helping us get around it, and spend the other $2 on jawbreakers!

[-] DogWater@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

Yeah but my aging parents can't, it's about effort. Of course I could set up something that gets around all of it but then I still have to pay for their music streaming on their phone. And the second something breaks I'm not with them to fix it.