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PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There's already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They're both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don't load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't comment on how Piped works, but I can tell you how it doesn't work. Piped does not access or utilize your Google account in any way. 👍

This comment was posted from a device that's never been logged into any Google account in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What email account provider do you use? Would be interested to get free of Google. .

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Proton mail is excellent and comes with a decent VPN that is free for personal use.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

If you want to get away from just Google, you can try iCloud or whatever Microsoft calls their Mail product now. If you want to get away with big tech run products, I recommend Proton. Of course you can always go full tinfoil hat and host your own email server with your own domain, but that will set you back at least 7 bucks a year, even if you for the cheapest register (Cloudflare, they don’t add their own fees at all, so you can’t really go lower).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unfortunately I still use Google, just not on this particular phone or my tablet. I'm still in the process of gradually de-Googling myself.

I've heard Proton is good though, it's on my radar in the future.. https://proton.me/

Also, not for daily use, more as a throwaway email for sites that have no business asking your email.. https://www.dispostable.com/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Thank you, I will look into it!