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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] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"go down like Reddit did" ... But did Reddit "go down"? It definitely lost users and content quality dropped, but still, everyone I talk to (that isn't a total nerd like us lemmings) still uses Reddit and has no idea what Lemmy is.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was going to try and contradict you, but I guess most of the people I know well IRL are also total nerds

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

Yeah. I introduced my wife to Reddit (she knew of it but didn't use it until I kinda showed her how great it is (was)). Now her family and friends use it too. They all heard about the drama but didn't seem to care or understand and they all still use Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should refer her to Cory Doctorow's writing, namely his concept of enshittification. He's one of the most effective political communicators alive today. If anyone can get her to understand the import of the issues surrounding Reddit's Simple Jack routine, it's him.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know the term enshitification, so maybe I've already read his stuff. I'm going to check it out more. Thanks!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Y'know, good point. I haven't actually been on reddit since the blackout, so I probably shouldn't be confidently basing any theories on just what I've heard about now-reddit from other people, lol. Thanks for the correction.

I guess my idea of how much reddit "fell" and how much Lemmy/Mastodon grew is a bit inflated, probably because I spend all my internet time here now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

(copy/pasted my response to another comment)

Yeah. I introduced my wife to Reddit (she knew of it but didn't use it until I kinda showed her how great it is (was)). Now her family and friends use it too. They all heard about the drama but didn't seem to care or understand and they all still use Reddit.