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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker (www.windowscentral.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [M, B] to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

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[–] 169 points 2 years ago* (7 children)

This article feels like a large language model generated article.

TLDR: use a user agent switcher

Other advice: use Firefox from f Droid, or Mull and install U-Block origin. Use new pipe, or libretube to avoid ads as well

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  • [–] 27 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    FreeTube, free open source YT client for desktop (Win, Mac, Linux). Been using it for past few days and despite being alpha, it works quite well. No data sent to YT except video requests. Subscriptions are stored locally and you can create profiles to separate subscriptions.

    https://freetubeapp.io/

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    I love free tube. But I can't quite figure it out. It works great on two of my computers. But on one of my computers is just dog slow. No matter which setting I fiddle with. So it's definitely alpha, if it works for you it's amazing.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Only tried it on Windows 10 and I have a beast of a desktop machine (Ryzen 9 5950x, 128GB RAM and a Radeon X5600XT, built it for virtualization). Will try it on Linux later today and on my laptop.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Surprisingly, it's my most powerful machine, that has the worst video playback. With constant pauses.

    I'm running free tube on Mac OS, Windows 11, Windows 10, Fedora inside of qubes.

    The settings are identical, I think it's something with the local API proxy. I just check it up to the alpha stage and inconsistent environments.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    I have been using too and it is awesome. Oy thing I have issue with is when playing a Playlist on full-screen it exits full screen at the end of every video so you have to click on it again to go full screen. Quite annoying on how I use it.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now there's grayjay as well, which is a universal media streaming client that respects your privacy.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Is that android phone only? I mean it would be cool to have it both on desktop and android tv...

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Run Android Subsystem for Windows, problem solved.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Well, I know the solution exists, but it hardly counts as a desktop app. I'd prefer something native (esp. for linux).

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  • [–] 8 points 2 years ago*

    I've been using revanced on android and have got no problems with youtubes enshitiication anthics, it even has sponsorblock for skipping sponsor in videos, it plays in the background in a small window while i browse lemmy. Only set back might be that its a little hard to install, since you need the patcher, a manager called micro g, and a very specific version of youtube that cannot be get from the playstore and the patcing is a little more complex that it should, but its worth every second of it once its done.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    It might be great. But you're still patching closed source binaries with dubious patches. It's not great information security hygiene. If you're on Android, I'd recommend new pipe as both safer and more vetted.

    Please enjoy it, by all means, just be aware that it does have a different threat model

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Newpipe works good too. you can Downloads videos with options audio or video!

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