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At least uBlock Origin is always up-to-date now

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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
- don't forget the list maintainers

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe FreeTube
- We're friends?
  
  👉👈
  
  we’re all friends here
- Also relevant:
  alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
  
  All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something
- PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in
  
  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
  
  Well, down the list we go...
- Don't forget Smarttube
- FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

It was fixed in mere minutes

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy
- It's gone because people were using it irresponsibly.
  https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/bd7ce41224
  https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2958

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

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.
- 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.

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

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.
- So does brave
  
  But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off
  
  Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.

Now It's gone

YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it's the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.
- I’d probably be paying for YouTube, if it were run by a normal media company instead of the world’s largest spy network and personal data broker. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my credit card information.
  
  Yeah I don't really care about value when it comes to giving money to the guys who work with the NSA and CIA to find ways to more thoroughly spy on every user 24/7, and turned every search into "You asked for x, here's a dozen pages of what the State Department thinks you should have searched for instead"
  Not to mention their genocide profiteering: https://www.mintpressnews.com/project-nimbus-billion-google-amazon-partners-israel/280087/
  
  Data gathering/brokering and payment information security are not really connected. PCI compliance standards are well standardized and fairly strict.
  I would trust Google to handle payment information securely over any ‘media’ company.
  If personal data was regulated at even the fraction of what payment data goes through we would all be better off.
  
  They already have your information, bud. Sorry.
- Sorry for the down votes, you're 100% valid. YouTube Premium benefits me and the content creators I watch. Sure, it's more complicated than that, but everything is, and sometimes you just have to make choices that make your life a little easier.
  
  Doesn't bother me, I know that it's an insanely hot take on Lemmy and reddit. I appreciate the vocal backup though.
- I paid for premium, until they wanted PayPal to share my address with Google.
- I used to pay for it, for the same reasons. They stopped taking my money, i don't know why, and I noticed zero change in the quality of the service.
  I'm paying for other google services, so I don't know why youtube specifically stopped. Oh well.
- Yup.
  Family plan is 22$ for ad free yt and music subscription for 5 or 6 people
  I get that Google bad an all that, but it's a good deal
  
  Personally, considering I can get it for free, and that Google bad, $22 is a bad deal for me. I'd rather donate $20 to the groups helping us get around it, and spend the other $2 on jawbreakers!
  
  A very hot take on Lemmy.

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