That’s a rhetorical question, in case there’s any doubt. I know the exact what and why of their bullshit.
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Another attempt at blocking ad blockers
we need an adblockers blockers blocker
uBlock
No you!
uBlock Origin - FTFY ❤️
Yeah I mean that one. Don’t use the other one.
I think they are clamping down and trying to force people to watch yt in Google’s desired way. They have managed to stop most Piped instances via ip banning and also requesting users to “sign in to confirm you are not a robot”. I wish their was a proper alternative at this point. It would be great if something like Peertube took off.
I use SmartTube on my TV and NewPipe on my phone. Except for links from Lemmy.
If this bullshit is/becomes a thing for every YouTube video, I’m gonna have to do a lot of annoying copying and pasting or just eschew pretty much all videos on Lemmy 🤬
Agreed on Peertube btw.
i got NewPipe set as default, so links from Lemmy open there instead of the YT app
I finally managed to do that too, so there’s that 🖕 to Google. And then the specific video hit me with the dreaded “not available in your country” bullshit 🤦
Thank you for letting me know this was a thing!! Total game-changer.
You’re so very welcome! 🙂
I wonder could someone write an app that watches the clipboard for YouTube URLs and auto launches the desired app?
You can uninstall YouTube and set newpipe as default “YouTube” app, all links will be open in that
UntrackMe, doesn’t open an app, but redirects to a chosen Invidious instance. I use farside.link/invidious which chooses a random instance closer to you.
There is a similar thing already written, minus the automatic part. You set it as your default browser and lets you do all sorts of things to the link before opening it in a browser. It lets you choose which app to use the link in afterwards. You can unshort urls, it checks for malware or redirects… You get the picture. Not sure if this helps with what you are after:
- 1000 for SmartTube!! I finally side-loaded uYou for my iphone and last time I used my android tablet I was able to update reVanced but thats been forever ago.
Might be cool to start advocating for some YouTube creators to also post their stuff on federated video hosting/sharing instances. Peertube is pretty cool. I mean shit, if any of you are thinking of being creators, and you make a video, put it both on YouTube and some Peertube instance.
Edit: replaced a word with “instance” and added word “instance”
Unfortunately creators need to be paid and YouTube ad & subscription money is a big part of that for many of them.
By posting to elsewhere that won’t pay them, they would be reducing their income
Shit, if anything anybody popular would be costing themselves money through hosting.
There are maybe a dozen non nuts on Odyssey. They’re just drown out by the fascists.
Problem is:
Peertube doesn’t pay
You have to pay for the backup/storage of your videos.
PT will have massive scaling pains.
Yt spends a lot of that advertising money hosting non profitable videos for free.
Yes! I couldn’t agree more on all that if I tried 🫶
Whenever I have issues with YouTube refusing to do things it used to do, I stop using it for a while and eventually they put it back. If you’re not willing to do that, I find that the NewPipe app is better than the native YouTube app. But be warned that occasionally Google makes changes that break New Pipe and you need to wait a couple days for the devs to catch up to the change.
Yeah, I’ve used NewPipe for ages, but YouTube links from Lemmy open in my browser, so I’m gonna have to copy paste into it, which is going to be all kinds of annoying 😡
Try turning on the desktop version of the site once the link is open in the browser.
On my phone this can be set by going to settings, default apps, opening links, wait unusually long for the list to load, scroll to NewPipe, choose the links you want it to handle.
Same here, sans the wait heh. I did that earlier today 🙂
I’ve gone out of my way to make a cracked .IPA of YouTube (basic adocker + sponserblock + Downloader) for my phone to not have to deal with there stuff and it’s held out so far. Just hope it keeps doing so
Piped and Invidious
okay but what do we do about backing up the massive library of content that only exists on youtube? how do we back that shit up, so when they break those, it is’t all lost forever?
Everyone here is like “use this” “use that” which is great but the immediate solution is
switch to desktop mode
You’re welcome
I tried that, didn’t work. NewPipe does.
Greyjay has been working fine for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
What browser are you using?
Firefox + uBlock Origin is still working for me right now.
Edit: hmm, could be a regional thing too. I’m in the US.
Nightly with uBO, so that’s not it…
have you tried desktop mode? It may just be looking at the useragent
Install ReVanced
I’m already using SmartTube on my tv and Tubular’s parent app NewPipe on my phone and now I finally have it set up so all links to YouTube addresses on my phone open in NewPipe so that I don’t get this bullshit again 😁
Get the YouTube Revanced app to play this*
It could be that it’s playing in a codec that your mobile browser doesn’t support like av1 or something. Not sure though, is this happening with every video?
Surely it would fall back to mp4? Are some videos AV1/VP9 only?
I dont know if youtube has h264 support
They have always hosted AVC videos. They have to for old/incompatible devices, because literally any toaster and software on earth will play it.
But sometimes they are funny about what gets encoded to what, and of course they will always try to default to av1/vp9 and opus.
Install GreyJay
Advertising for alternatives and/or unofficial apps
Yup! I was already using NewPipe for finding YouTube videos myself, but this is what spurred me on to find out how to also open every YouTube link i click in NewPipe 😁
This is why I’ve always been confused about people telling me to use an ad-blocker. How tf does that help with the app?
I have NewPipe now so it’s not a problem.
“this ad blocker doesn’t help with solving my not-at-ad issue! what good is it?!”
I mean the ads on the app are just as bad
Those are baked into the app, though
See idk how all that shit works which is why I’ve always been confused.
