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    If the garbage takes itself out, I won’t complain. YT doesn’t see how the cable companies dying is the exact same future it is racing to emulate.

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    If you’re on desktop, download FreeTube. No more ads, ever. No more jittery youtube videos even though you have 300mbs down, you can download any video in app at max speeds, and its not algorithm fed. I imported my subscriptions, and now if I want to see something new I can use the not broken search function. Its like early early youtube and its wonderful!

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      With the recent major update, Freetube implemented a new player which I like much better than the old one. With the new player, all keyboard shortcuts work well, that’s great for me because my Home Theatre PC is controlled by a wireless keyboard+touchpad.

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      Freetube is great but it’s also a source of endless frustration. Like if you walk away from your computer the stream times out and it won’t resume. Then it says “reload” and they never implemented a reload button so you have to navigate to something else. Except their navigation doesn’t work quite right so sometimes if you click too fast it stays on the new page after you try to go back to the one you wanted to reload. Rawr. (GitHub issues 1005, 1425, 1500, 1958, 4062, 4409, 5019, 5152, 6136, 6201)

      I use youtube-local which is great, but it’s more susceptible to breakage which is why I’m currently back on freetube and very very very frustrated.

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        In Freetube, reload is ctrl-R on Linux and Windows, and cmd-R on Mac. I have experienced the fact that if you leave a video paused for a long time (hours) then you need to refresh. If you have history active, after refreshing the video will resume from where you left, which by the way is better then actual YouTube where it will often resume from an earlier timestamp. I have not experienced the other issues you mentioned.

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        There’s no reload button directly in the UI, but if you press alt and then go to View > Reload or View > Force Reload. It’s not ideal, but it does work.

        Edit: Didn’t finish reading your comment, I’ve never experienced any of those issues, especially with navigation.

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      It’s a bit of a faff, but I use FreeTube to grab the URLs which I then drop into a yt-dlp command that I use to download my subscriptions to watch on Plex on my Apple TV. Works a treat, though I wish I could get Plex to display them properly.

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        Why not just use tubesync? There’s another one like youtube archivist or something as well. If you already have a Plex server you probably have the skills to set it up.

        https://github.com/meeb/tubesync

        Here’s the other that I’m aware of https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist

        I found tubesync kinda needs to be run on vpn if you don’t want YouTube to ban you during the initial sync, I assume the same is true for archivist. Works fine after that first sync tho (I’m actually using as an archive since people tend to take their stuff down once they change hobbies for some reason, so I literally was archiving whole channels).

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          Yeah, I’m aware of both of them but have spent a ridiculous amount of time trying to figure out how to get them to work. I’m fairly new to Linux, and the instructions for both seem to assume a certain amount of expertise.

          Oh, and as I type this I’ve remembered that I did manage to get one of them to work, but something to do with the way it downloads the videos means that you need to install a Plex plugin of some description because Plex won’t recognise the metadata or some shit.

          So for the time being I’m happy enough to fanny about with my manual method. Between my wife and I it takes up about ten minutes every couple of days, and that’s ok.

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    Fun fact, it seems this ban is IP based. (they’re still testing in waves with a subset of overall users)

    I switched to a new IP with my VPN, and while still signed in to the same YouTube account on the same video without ever clearing my cache or cookies, the block disappeared.

    Genius work from the developers over at YouTube.

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    AdGuard pro, SponsorBlock, DeArrow, and Untrap for YouTube. I only rarely ever see a brief part of a sponsor ad, and never see YouTube’s own ads.

    Untrap lets you modify nearly anything about YouTube like even removing the view count and channel avatars, among many other options.

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    I’ve landed on that page a couple of times. I’m just waiting to be blocked.

    I almost never watch videos on youtube because I download them and watch them locally. The two things that I use to download them are Downie (Mac) and yt-download (cross platform). This helps me avoid ads unless they are baked into the video. I also like to grab a bunch of content all at once and then watch at my leisure.

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      If you use yt-dlp you can save your subscriptions in a text file and download all their latest vids on a schedule.

      Easy enough ChatGPT can write you this script and you may also find examples online.

      If not directly useful for you, i am also putting this down for others. Do not let a monopoly dictate what is “the normal way” to do things.

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      This is an interesting way to watch YouTube, and I have some questions about your system around watching the videos.

      1. How do you plan out downloading and watching the videos? Do you download at the time of watching, or do you just download as many videos you like when you get the chance?
      2. What do you do with the videos after watching?
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    If a million porn sites can make streaming video work, then YouTube is replaceable.

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        I am already doing that, but YouTube doesn’t like uBlock Origin. The browser is not the problem.

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          On ublock origin, go to settings > filters and disable the one that says “Quick fixes”. It will work again.

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            I just checked github and this is already resolved, just refresh filters

            Fine work as always from ublock

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          It’s been fine for me.

          What it doesn’t like is my VPN, even when it’s not using it for the browser connection (split tunneling). For some reason many sites crap out when I have that on and become unreliable.

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          I had the same issue until I realized I had Ghostery and privacybadger also enabled. Disabling them on YT but keeping ublock origin worked

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    I saw it and refreshed the ublock filters and everything works again

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    mpv youtube-URL works just fine without even loading the crappy scripts to show a banner like that. Manage your subscriptions with a RSS feeder and you don’t need an account to follow creators.

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    From the uBO subreddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1etvawp/youtube_ads_detection_breakages_2024_08_16_ubo/m31kbkw/

    There was just an update to Quick fixes. Please test if it works for you.

    1. Click Here to update the list.
    2. If you disabled the list previously, enable it back.
    3. Close all previously opened YT tabs and try in a new one.

    Just a reminder: Please always treat disabling lists as a last resort/temporary solution type of thing. Without that list, you won’t be receiving important filter updates and will likely encounter ads after a while. So don’t keep it disabled forever - verify that it’s still necessary (daily?).

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    Good joke, YouTube.

    Ah yes, but what about the violation to our time where we’ve had to sit through 30 second ~ 2 minute ads of over-dramatized ways for shitty companies to get us to buy shit we don’t want and subscribe to services we don’t need? What about those violations and those violations happen more frequently than us blocking your ads? The hell with you.

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      I’m just so tired of ads nowadays, ads for cars i can’t afford, ads for crap i’m never going to buy, ads for the supermarket i’m going to no matter if they have some discount…it’s all useless and a waste of my time and invasion on my peace.

      I bought the devices, i pay for the internet connection and i pay the rent on this house, i decide what makes it inside my house.

      I don’t need this funny clip my supermarket made to market overpriced holiday food 46 times a day that lasts 60 seconds and is only funny the first time i see it. I’m not going to buy a tiny christmas cake that barely feeds a child for €15, realistically it’s value to me is €1,50 compared to my wage and amount of food i get in return. I’m buying store brand m&m’s and a loaf of bread like i do all year.

      If you can’t keep existing without shoveling truckloads of ads into my face, then go bankrupt…i don’t give a damn. You’re not worth €16 a month to me either or whatever the price is nowadays. Just fuck off i’ll get my entertainment elsewhere, heck i might dust off that ps4 and buy used dvd’s for 25 cents a piece.

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        Yeah and a couple of things:

        Malware has directly passed through as networks multiple times and neither the server of ads nor the ad network were able to be held responsible for it.

        Right now it is common for ads to show apps that look like something popular but deploy malware. Nobody is taking responsibility for any of it. Ad networks aren’t well policed.

        It is irresponsible for a user not to block ads IMO but I also get to decide what packets of data traverse my network just like any other person or company. As a consumer I do not have to be responsible or care if a business model succeeds or not.

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          Who cares. These of people are YouTube addicts. Just stop using it, if you find it so unbearable.

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            Oh I totally agree with you, I was just making fun of the downvotes coming from hypocrites who don’t want to abandon their favorite megacorp but instead cry a river about ads.

            Now I hate ads like the next guy, but either I find a way to block them, or I move on.

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              Same here. These people are literally unable to vote with their wallet, not even metaphorically.

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      Well, then don’t go on YouTube, or use peer tube. You are trading 30 seconds of your time for:

      • creators making the thing you so desperately want to watch
      • disk space to store it
      • bandwidth to send it around the world
      • compute to transcode it and process it
      • real estate and security for the premises
      • power for the datacenter
      • ac to cool the servers
      • wages of workers to maintain that whole infrastructure
      • wages of devs for the app
      • yes, profits for the company

      Of course, you can decide to not pay and steal it instead, just don’t act like you are morally entitled to do it.

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    Well I guess I’ll be mozying over to Rumble now.

    20 minutes later

    Turns out Jews are aliens directing the Democratic Party and Hollywood to sacrifice babies for adrenochrome. Why is the lamestream media not talking about this???

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        Imagine being Jewish and on either side people hate you.

        Right wing: Jews are behind everything

        Left wing: Jews are zionists and zionists are Nazis because Israel.

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          I don’t think left wing people are hating on Jewish people, except maybe those crazy “Marxist-Leninist” types. Not all Jewish people are pro-Natanyahu, in fact, many are probably against Netanyahu.

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            I know very well that many Jews are against Netanyahu. All my relatives in Israel regularly protest that war criminal, along with tens of thousands of others.

            Doesn’t stop the majority on this site from equating Israel with Jews. I made the mistake of writing “mazel tov” as part of one of my previous comments and received all sorts of colourful inbox messages calling me a “Zionist” and a “colonizer”, despite being a Canadian haha.

            Just the hint of something Jewish invites everyone to yell about Gaza 🤪

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        It all becomes clear once you understand that the Jews returning to Israel is a precondition for the Christian apocalypse. Christofascists don’t give a flying fuck about the Jews; they support Israel as a country (and Zionism in particular) for the entirely ghoulishly selfish reason that they wanna get ‘raptured.’

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          And you both are oversimplifying by putting the christian zionist nutjobs within the same basket with the vast array of other nutjobs and assume that they are all the same.

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            oversimplifying by putting the christian zionist nutjobs within the same basket with the vast array of other nutjobs

            It’s a fairly compact venn diagram.

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            All of our politicians are proud zionists, even if few are jews, or extreme evangelicals.

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            Don’t forget, jews have to own the entire holy land before the apocalypse comes and god sends them to hell, according to evangelical Christians.

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        Well, the Jewish Jews are the LORD’s chosen, underdogs who are bravely soldiering the storm, but the American Jews are communist Satan worshippers who’ve sold their souls for control of the world. They’ve been battling for millenia to control the space lasers.

        Also, now that I’ve imagined it, there’s both porn and a Manga of it.

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          I recommend Amish porn instead. I dont think they are actually Amish but way better than jewish porn.

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      God I was looking for peertube apps and rumble was advertised in the app store. Boy did I have a surprise when I scrolled through the most subscribed list

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        That happens on any platform that advertises itself as totally unmoderated and uncensored.

        Like itbor not, it’s the moderators and acceptable use policies that keep the nazis and other bad actors at bay.

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        Yeah, don’t do that. The most popular content on YouTube isn’t bad in the same way it is on Rumble/Odyssey, but in general, it’s filled with clickbait/rage bait and is generally pretty awful. It’s going to be especially awful on Rumble and Odyssey because it’s a refuge for people who didn’t like YouTube’s policies, so it’s going to largely be conspiracy theorists and far right nonsense.

        That said, there’s some good on every platform. On Rumble, I like Glenn Greenwald, who is a right of center independent journalist who lives in Brazil (also gay, but that’s irrelevant). On Odyssey, I like Mental Outlaw (covers hacks, leaks, and privacy related news) and Naomi Brockwell (privacy advocacy). I don’t have an account at either, largely because those platforms are full of trash, I just sub through Grayjay so I don’t see that nonsense.

        I wish a credible alternative existed, but for now, I’ll hedge a bit with other platforms.

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          I remember, pre-wikileaks, when Glen Greenwald was left of center. Or at least that was my perspective at the time.

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            I think he’s pretty centrist, but he does tend to defend Trump a bit (not a fanboy, but a “see what he does” position) and is against supporting Ukraine, which is why I say he’s right of center. He’s nowhere near the Republican Party though, he’s pretty independent.

            Regardless, I don’t really care where he sits on the left/right spectrum, I just appreciate an independent voice that backs statements with facts.

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      I’d watch the shit outta that with some popcorn. Between the logic jumps and the mandatory hand-waving of actual evidence to the contrary, and sheer numbers of fallacies to make the argument make sense it sounds like a hella entertaining time

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      Lol.

      There’s some decent content if you look. I like Glenn Greenwald, and I sub to NBTV and Mental Outlaw on Odyssey. There’s a lot of nonsense on all platforms, but if you’re careful, you may find some decent stuff there. I wish more YouTubers would re-upload on other platforms, but I guess that’s asking too much…