I started routing all of my system traffic through Tor recently, which made YouTube nearly impossible to watch. So, my watching time on YouTube has dropped, and I have started watching more Rumble, Odysee, and PeerTube.
God I wouldn’t mind if the ads weren’t so fucking cancer. Like I have streaming with ads and dumb Liberty Bibberty or whatever is fine.
But YouTube, it constantly runs gambling scams and then rolls into a 90 minute “ad” podcast about some bull shit
I just noticed they removed the button to report ads as inappropriate.
The day they “win” is the day YouTube is dead to me
PeerTube
Odysee
Internet Archive, to an extentNebula
Floatplane
Vimeo
Patreon videoBitch your content creators to also provide content on other platforms.
Maybe add Bilibili, TikTok, Facebook, and Dailymotion to the list. Yes, they also have ads but they are not that strict about ad blockers.
The content creators won’t make the effort unless they have some way to monetize their views though.
I’m my opinion the best days of YouTube were before monetization was a thing. There were plenty of creators back then, and it was a lot less corporate than it is now.
Unfortunately, you need monetization to keep going. If creators didn’t, they wouldn’t have folded to YouTube monetization rules and just kept posting whatever they wanted. Basically, YouTube demonitezes then crrators have folded to just censoring their videos instead of pushing back because of money.
From what I understand (very limited knowledge here, might be BS) YouTube actually pays creators more than pretty much any other platform.
I do but they usually bitch right back
invidious https://inv.nadeko.net/feed/popular
I haven’t been able to get invidious to work reliably for a year or more.
I’m not asking for a how-to. I’m happy enough with freetube on the desktop.
That’s a privacy overlay like nitter for twitter, not a hosting platform.
NewPipe
That’s a privacy overlay like nitter for twitter, not a hosting platform.
Works better than invideous though.
You guys, Mr YouTube worked really hard to make and produce all those videos quit stealing them!!
Is the article 404ing for anyone else?
Yep
On android use a firefox fork with ublock I’m sure there is an equvalent on ios as well. It’s much easier than playing whack-a-mole with an app.
Ublock works in normal mobile Firefox on android
Does the ublock addon also do the cat and mouse game with Google when google patches ad blocking with ublock?
pipepipe is fine. Install direct from github. It alerts you when theres an update.
Try Unwatched
It even have sponsorblock built in.
Thank you so much I have looking fr something like this for nearly a year now.
Bonus
Vinegar works really well on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229
$1.99?
No thanks. But thanks though.
It’s an Apple app so be thankful it’s not $29.99. I’m not endorsing the price and haven’t even had an iPhone in years but it did work well, even on such a locked down platform
Some of us don’t base their buying off of stupid ads. Why can’t we just be left alone. At this point I’m just basing on if I have any money left after going to the gas pump.
That’s not the point. Youtube doesn’t want to sell you anything. They want to sell you to the companies that want to sell you something. Doesn’t matter if you buy anything, as long as you give them some attention.
Yeah, it’s really annoying how ads have become “Mr. Beastified” too. I can’t even turn a TV on without some attention sucking advert coming on that demands your full and centered attention. What was a chill afternoon feels more like a tax.
Newpipe’s been relatively solid for me on Android. I think I have more subscriptions there than on Youtube at this point.
Yep, Newpipe and PipePipe which is a fork of Newpipe are both working just fine for me.
“Page not found” but the post is upvoted this much? Is the article taken down perhaps?
It’s probably upvoted because fuck Google.
Guess that explains why GrayJay stopped working.
When Gemini recommended SmartTube I made the switch.
Hasnt been very successful as i can see, mine goes well and i even vibe coded some slop IPA for my iphone to sideload a custom ad free client that works flawlessly. Idgaf their greedy ass, ima watch my shit adfree until i tapout
Try Unwatched
