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YouTube is deliberately crippling Firefox on ARM systems (social.treehouse.systems)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 73 points 2 years ago (8 children)

They finally made YouTube unusable for me even with ublock. Refreshing the filters didn't work and told me I could only watch 3 videos.

Google was always going to win the war but I didn't expect it to be like this.

I'm now using piped for all YouTube videos.

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

    I randomly stopped getting the anti-adblocking. On my gaming PC I never got them, on my laptop they went away after I disabled my adblocking for one video and then re-enabled it. Now I don't get them at all. Did they give up on me?

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

    I'd love they gave up on me too...

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

    I wish Piped worked for me, I was trying to watch a Linux tutorial in full HD to see the commands better and Piped just refused to buffer the video.

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

    There are other alternatives too, like invidious. The yewtu.be instance works decently well for me but limits to 720p I think. There is a list of all running instances somewhere on the github iirc. There's other instances that allow full HD, just have a search and you should be able to find one.

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

    Just redirect any watch page to https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=%ID% and you will get a list of instances. Can be setup with Redirector in a minute

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    Well, I just got Redirector last night to check it out and it took me some time to figure out how to get it to work right where I have https://youtube.com/watch?v=* redirecting to https://yewtu.be/watch?v=$1 in case there is something funky going on there that causes me to need to have that redirect active.

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

    My YouTube redirect rule is a bit more complex, but works for all shorts, youtu.be and regular youtube links and it supports time stamps and videos that are part of a playlist.

    Set the rule to regular expression, use this one

    (?:https?:\/\/)?(?:www\.)?(?:youtube\.com\/(?:watch\?v=|shorts\/)|youtu\.be\/)([^&?\/]+[&?]?.*)

    remove the two "amp;" at the end (Lemmy formatting is bad, it replaces an ampersand with & even if you tell it not to...) and redirect to https://%yourinstanceofchoice%/watch?v=$1

    Enjoy!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    Okay, what I was trying to do with Redirector is have it so I can search and browse videos on YouTube, but when I click on something that I want to watch, it forwards me to the same video on YewTu.be instead.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

    That's exactly what this is doing. It captures all youtube.com/watch, youtube.com/shorts and youtu.be/ pages and redirects then to the same page on invidious. Just replace %yourinstanceofchoice% with yewtu.be.

    If you don't open videos you want to watch in a new tab, you also have to go to Advanced Options in your rule and tick "HistoryState" else it will bypass the redirect.

    This should work for you:

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    What works for me is opening a new Private windows on Firefox, with ublock installed, and then login into YouTube. I do have to login every time I hope a private windows by so far I’ve been able to watch unlimited videos with an ad blocker installed

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