firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.
Or Newpipe
or Revanced
or Freetube.
Or uYou on iOS
Or SmartTube on android TV
You don't have to jailbreak an apple device anymore, side loading works?
You don’t have to jailbreak, you just have to use AltStore and “renew” the app every 7 days. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass in all honesty but it’s still better than watching ads.
I do sometimes find stuff I wanna watch when browsing through YouTube though, and the uYou app is really good. Even allows me to stream up to 4K and screen off etc.
There’s also Yattee for iOS on the App Store. It uses an Invidious instance and I guess because the piracy isn’t part of the app itself it passes the rules? There are plenty of public instances. It also has SponsorBlock built in.
Here’s the app: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yattee/id1595136629
yeah, FF with ublock, sponsorblock and return dislike on PC works fine.
revanced on mobile works perfectly as well.
youtube can stick it up their ass.
Sorry to stomp on the hate parade, but a ublock origin dev says this a adblock bug. Just use ublock origin.
People should use Firefox and uBlock Origin
I always assume that people in a community like this are using them, but clearly such is not the case
So often I see people asking questions and I know that if they were using Firefox and uBlock, they wouldn't have the problems they're having
I feel the same.
Working at a college its always shocking finding out a lot of the youth don't know ad blocking at least. Volunteering after my shift to help with tutoring or other help they will try to show me a youtube video even on their personal laptop. Every start of a semester its something that leaves me shaking my head.
I don't really like the term "echo chamber," but that sort of thing makes me realize I'm really in one. Nearly everyone I interact with online just takes things like adblocking and basic internet hygiene for granted, but every so often I encounter someone who reminds me that there are a lot of people who don't know the first thing about such things.
I remember one time this kid asked me, "What's Chromium? I have this app called 'Chromium' but I don't know what it's for," so I went into a lengthy explanation about how it's an internet browser, and how Chrome is based on Chromium but that Chromium without Google exists, whereupon they showed me their laptop, and it was severely infected with some obvious malware that put a search bar on their desktop titled "Chromium."
Sadly it doesn’t work for me anymore (and yes I have followed uBlock’s instructions).
Not true. The implicit wait of 5000 milliseconds is hard-coded to non-chrome browsers.
and brave if you are not interrsted toó much on workarrounds?
Any non-chrome browser will experience a 5 second delay (IF they have an adblocker)
FWIW, with Firefox on Linux with pihole on my network and ublock origin, some component (or the mix) of those things seems to have meant that so far I have yet to experience a single one of the things Google has been doing since the adblock wars began again. I just checked now to see if there was any delay, and there is not.
I haven't seen a single popup, nor a single warning, no slowdowns, and no ads. I installed freetube in preparation for getting screwed, and although I like it, ad-wise and speed-wise it's no different than hitting youtube directly.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
"Checked to see if there was any delay" is not entirely a good argument when I have post history of going through the JS.
That 5000ms wait is still in there; if I had to guess, your Pihole is preventing any real issue there.
OK. I'm not claiming google isn't trying. I'm claiming it doesn't matter, and this is a solvable problem for end users. Most others in this thread are saying just FF and ublock does it, so I probably have overkill going on.
I only know this is happening with Youtube recently because of seeing other people talk about it.
Same here. uBO + Firefox
If there's been a delay, it's not been noticeable to me
YouTube is already a sedated, anaemic whale of a website. Adblock probably makes it run faster, given it usually removes stuff rather than add it. If you want speed, I recommend a frontend such as Invidious or Piped, it's what I use on my weaker laptops where YouTube takes half a minute to load.
Agreed, Invidious is so much lighter than YouTube that I've had sucess watching on onion instances via Tor.
Isn't it fun going down this road rather than fixing the need for ad blockers. (The ones beyond I'm just not interested)
The fbi recommends using adblockers which is amusing to me as Google is headquartered under their jurisdiction.
Drive by scams malicious scripts and straight up videos that google themselves would kill the account of a creator for.
And on top of that there's only so many times in an hour I can watch an ad for raid shadow wallet in an hour before I need a suicide hotline
You're going to get suicide booth ads if you don't watch out.
I set my user agent to a google bot. Everything works other than steam chat.
Sadly it works for YouTube. Yesterday I noticed a friend disabled uBlock Origin on YouTube. They don't care that there's workarounds, they'd rather watch 2 min ads than read up about something they are not interested in.
Did you tell your friend ads waste far more time than the 3-5 second delay you get on Firefox with ublock? I mean, I get someone would hesitate to install another extension like User-Agent Switcher because you don't really want to trust it, but even then just using ublock is still faster than watching ads.
You assume people are rational, they are not
If you're experiencing this issue, unfortunately, you only have two options: Either disable your ad blocker or pay for a YouTube premium subscription
Oh wow, they managed to not say the quiet part out loud.
I've always just spammed refresh as soon as it takes longer than 2 seconds to load and it usuaally goes back to normal.
youtube-dlp is your friend then - https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
Also mpv, it can use yt-dlp as a backend to play videos from urls: https://github.com/mpv-player/mpv
I'm quite satisfied with GrayJay app.
I'm glad that last week I decided to ditch Youtube proper and use the Invidious frontend instead.
I <3 invidious. Was traveling recently and didn't have access to my home invidious instance and WOW, yt sucks without it.
Freetube,cayse it stores your subscriptions oocally meaning you can chabge servers when one is down and continue senjoying your videos
I have firefox and ublock and they're not always working, so I just open the video url in any video player that supports it. In potplayer I just copy the video url and use ctrl+v in the main video window and it opens with no issues.
ff2mpv adds a button in the addon bar and in the context menu to open a video in mpv. It's awesome and removes the manual copy and pasting of the url.
ttps://github.com/woodruffw/ff2mpv
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