YouTube is waging a war against adblockers...and losing.
  • YouTube is intensifying efforts to combat adblockers, including blocking video playback and warning users of potential account suspension.
  • Increased ads on YouTube have driven many users to adblockers, hurting both YouTube’s ad revenue and content creators reliant on ad-based income.
  • Despite these measures, many users are leaving YouTube or finding workarounds, leading creators to seek alternative revenue streams off-platform.
    • @TheOSINTguyEnglish
      6•28 days ago

      Free tube still works, android app is kinda buggy though.

    • @WhyJiffieEnglish
      3•28 days ago

      Piped should be able to work if they implement invidious’s workaround. Unfortunately devs don’t seem to be active anymore :/

    • @[email protected]English
      2•28 days ago

      What features aren’t working in Piped?

      I have a selfhosted Piped instance and use it daily without issue in Firefox and LibreTube on Android.

      • Anthony [She/Her/They/Them]English
        3•28 days ago

        A lot of instances have been getting these “Sign in to confirm your not a not” messages, if to many people use them at the same time. It works after a while again, but only being able to watch Videos sometimes, when the right stars align properly, is to unreliable for most user, me included.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•27 days ago

          Ah. Yeah I’m the only one using my instance. Haven’t had that issue.

          Once piped stops working for me YouTube is dead to me. I had to load up a video at work the other day using the YouTube website and holy crap is it naaty looking these days. Can’t use any browser extensions at work so ads and crap everywhere.