It happened today: Youtube no longer works on Librewolf for me.
It happened today: Youtube no longer works on Librewolf for me.
Presumably, there is some kind of way I can work around it, I saw something about clearing the cache because of stored failures of handshaking, but it seems like on the whole maybe it is time to start fuckin' with Peertube or something instead.
Youtube recently (as in last week) has been fuckin around with stuff to try and kill adblockers again, which means basically anyone using nonstandard browsers, VPNs, pihole/adguard dns, etc are having issues. Even some people who are using legit clients but just have an old oauth token (like phone users who logged in 2 years ago)
google will inconvenience 70% of their user base to kill adblockers (temporarily, bc I’ve already gotten ytplus working again without even needing a new build ha)
I actually used to pay for YouTube Premium for quite a while. It was $7/month and I split it with someone so it cost me $3/month to eliminate the very slightly annoying ads, which was well worth it.
Since then, they've taken a hard right turn down Shitty On Purpose Lane, I've long since stopped paying them, and after the most recent round of making the ads ten times worse a few months ago, I pretty much only use Librewolf unless I am for some reason watching it on my phone.
I feel like Google has completely forgotten the concept that made them the only successful search engine, all those ancient years ago. It's okay. The world doesn't mind teaching lessons again, in my experience.
I could have written that. I was fine with paying for YT, even though they asked too much to my taste I paid for years, but I decided their attitude was way too hostile (and too dumb) and decided to cancel my Premium membership.
I watch a lot less YT nowadays, like a lot, and I do it on Waterfox with those extensions: uBO + SponsorBlock (and YT Enhancer). So far, beside a few slow downs and the occasional refusal to play a video, it seems to be working fine.
I stopped paying the very second they looped in Google play music. I have zero need for a bundle, YouTube. Zero. Give me my cheap ad removal back for your already exorbitant rate. I know you're not making more than a quarter a month off of even the users watching every ad.
revanced youtube. or if rooted dwvice in combination with detach. no ads no shorts no limits for background playing etc.
i’m on revanced and haven’t experienced any interruptions. every time they “crack down” it ends up being mostly overspray.
Not surprising as Google is an advertisement company. Don't know why people who hate ads still bother with them.