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At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now (lemmy.world)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ads aside, what's been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the "1080p Enhanced Bitrate"; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don't have Premium, but I'm fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would've been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

From everything I've read, it seems they didn't actually reduce quality and it's just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

Could be, I don't know. I doubt that video creators would go through all of these old videos just to update them to a slightly higher bitrate; the other possibility is that YouTube kept the original uploads or higher bitrate variants without previously showing them (and only showed them now), but that seems like a huge waste of storage, so it seems unlikely to me. Again, we're talking about old uploads (2-3 or up to 10 years ago), not new ones.

The one thing I've seen that makes sense is updating old videos that were previously available at up to 480p and bringing them up to 720p or 1080p (with the idea of keeping the original published video with the views, comments and so on instead of uploading a new one).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

yes video quality has dropped, video suggestion algorithms have become a weird uroboric/echo chamber even if you have dozens of subscriptions, and the YouTube shorts reel refuses to be trained (no matter what I do, if I dislike every video I don't want to see and like all the ones I do want to see and log off if it suggests too many bad videos in a row, it still feeds me an endless loop of unwanted brain rot after 5 or 6 scrolls). I hate YouTube.

At the same time, they've found a good way around the ad block situation which is to promote ads as thumbnails on your "for you" video main page. I don't know why they didn't just do that in the first place, because honestly I don't mind that. It's when they constantly interrupt my videos ever freaking minute and a half that I start to get pissed.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I'm guessing they're going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

these subscription models don't work. What these morons don't count on is that everyone actually hates the technology deep down. We don't want it! But it gives us a dopamine hit. And when they stack on subscription prices and lock up content and shove ads down our throat... well, the dopamine stops hitting and just get pissed. So we leave.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe FreeTube

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We're friends?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

we’re all friends here

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators

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

Well, down the list we go...

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

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

[–] [email protected] 167 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it's already working again.

Blessings to Gorhill

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 day ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[–] [email protected] 65 points 2 days ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

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

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So does brave

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

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

Proof..?

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

Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

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

Now It's gone

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