Can’t wait until Google flips them on globally for all users doomer

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    I’m willing to pay a monthly subscription to help keep uBO fully functional. If I pay a subscription to a service like youtube to remove ads then I am only ad free on youtube. Whereas uBO blocks ads on everything.

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      Regardless whatever we’d be willing to pay, there’s no way for uBO to effectively route the collected funds out to all publishers (also I guarantee there’s gonna be a fight of “views on my site are worth more than theirs”), and so the cat and mouse game will continue forever.

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        I do not want my money to go to paying off publishers. I want my money going to support well funded and continuous development of a product that defeats their current business model. I hate being tracked and sold. I want the entire system to die.

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            Nah. People should stop making careers out of tracking and selling peoples information.

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              Using YouTube, even with adblock, supports the idea that there is a market for this content and that it can be monetized.

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                Let’s flip the script.

                Using uBO, even on youtube, supports the idea that there is a market for an adblocker and that it can be monetized. Which if you read my top comment in this thread…

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            Advertising is mental pollution. Opening your window to teams of people with PhDs in lying and manipulating you to just say whatever the hell they want.

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        I may not be smartest tool in the shed, but couldn’t they collect funds on one shared account, and manage those funds after voting or other type of deciding power in the organization?

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    Youtube invites the user to use nonfree javascript, so there’s no telling when their engineers will get the upper hand (it seems that they already have). The only sustainable solution is to drop youtube entirely or support a libre frontend…

    And also to educate everyone you can on libre software philosophy so they know to reject the next iteration of this injustice instead of waiting for the bruises to appear.

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    I use Firefox for desktop and PipePipe on mobile, no issues yet, when I do no more Youtube because fuck ads. This is why I datahoard as my meager datastorage allows.

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      Free tube hasn’t been updated since November of 2022. The nightly branch is getting the updates. So if you’re running into issues with free tube you might want to go to nightly, but it’s a pain to get, you need to be logged in to GitHub to get it.

      I wish FreeTube updated the releases is more often. I’m often running into API errors, it’s a little annoying

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      My invidious has stopped working today (in the UK)… all the videos fail to load and the fixes (like turning on video proxy) do not fix it… I’ve noticed a few piped and invidious instances having similar issues.

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        Probably related to the issues I began having yesterday with Revanced- suddenly, videos started to infinitely buffer after around 1 minute of playing. I ended up having to update + reinstall Revanced entirely. Looking at the Revanced subreddit it seems more and more users have started getting affected by the same issue these past few weeks.

        Google’s definitely doing something.

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          I also did this, this morning and it seemed to fix it. If it becomes impossible to block ads I guess we all just stop watching YouTube…?

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          Good to know this isn’t just me, I updated and reinstalled without resorting to forums, and it solved the issue for me too.

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        I am not a piped user so I am not 100% updated but as far as I know, Google is blocking the various piped instances by their IP

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    What is the best alternative to YouTube? Is there one?

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        I can’t really find a good instance to use. Do you know one I should make an account on?

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          From what I understand you shouldn’t make an account unless you’re uploading, but I could be mistaken