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Ignacio ,

Oh, do you want my viewing experience to be worse? Well don't worry, because I'm doing my best so PeerTube has quality content in a weekly basis, while you also have the same content in a monthly basis.

adam_b ,

I honestly thought I’m on the wrong website when I loaded YT with adblock disabled…

apochryphal_triptych ,
@apochryphal_triptych@lemmy.world avatar

I pay for Youtube premium as a carry-over from Google Music (back when it was called Youtube Red). I let it run because I enjoy the screen off feature when I’m driving. On my desktop uBlock Origin still blocks 340 scripts/trackers even when logged into Premium. They not only want to eye-rape us with ads, but they want to track the fuck out of us across the web.

nutsack ,

don’t care suck my balls

asexualchangeling ,

Can’t be worse than the experience with the ads…

Pinecone ,

Yeah. The current amount of unskippable ads means there cannot possibly be a worse experience. Any kind of ad blocking, even if it means learning to write and compile your own code is better than base YouTube.

spirinolas ,

“Hey buddy, it would be a damn shame if something happened to your viewer experience. Oh, no, we’re your buddies, eheheh. For a small fee, we’ll make sure your experience will be safe.”

netchami ,

Oh no, how unfortunate. Sadly, we don’t have alternative YouTube clients like Invidious or Piped that can be used with LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to these alternative front-ends. And unfortunately, you can’t use LibreTube or NewPipe on Android, as well as Yattee with this guide on iOS, iPadOS and tvOS or SmartTubeNext on Android TV.

GardeningSadhu ,

damn this is awesome! this comment here is exactly why i hang out here instead of reddit these days. never see stuff like this there anymore, useful stuff. thank you so much!

netchami ,

Lemmy actually encourages me to post comments that are hopefully helpful for others. On Reddit I was just lurking, but on Lemmy, I actually participate in discussions.

Resol ,
@Resol@lemmy.world avatar

I’m glad I chose to live here now

netchami ,

same

ArianaGrande ,

Yes, that’s such a shame. Thank you for making me aware that we have no such alternatives.

BeautifulMind ,
@BeautifulMind@lemmy.world avatar

I’ve seen youtube content on piped I know full well to be 4k video be blurred so badly as to be nearly unwatchable- they honestly decided to spend money to make their content worse as a lever to get you to watch ads or to submit to tracking etc

netchami ,

I have no idea what you’re talking about. I use Piped daily and I never experienced such issues.

SamVergeudetZeit ,
@SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de avatar

I love how aggressive google is becoming. It drives more and more people into the arms of open source os and firefox

TangledHyphae OP ,

100% true facts. I am basically permanently open source OS and firefox now. (Shoutouts to EndeavorOS, going to wipe this PC clean of ubuntu next.)

SamVergeudetZeit ,
@SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de avatar

Welcome aboard.

netchami ,

I love my desktop with Gentoo Linux and LibreWolf as my browser (basically Firefox on steroids with massive privacy and security improvements and preinstalled uBlock Origin) as well as GrapheneOS with Mull (the closest thing to LibreWolf on mobile) on my phone.

SamVergeudetZeit ,
@SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de avatar

Nice! Will switch to Graphene too, when I find the time.

whats_all_this_then ,

Already switched to Firefox for work on linux and I’ll switch on my “entertainment” windows install as well soon… just need to find time to do the sync stuff

SamVergeudetZeit ,
@SamVergeudetZeit@feddit.de avatar

Good job!

archchan ,

The more Google keeps going down this path as they inevitably always would, the more viscerally I will fight against it.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll just start downloading the YouTube videos I wanna watch. Maybe even have it on my Plex server.

netchami ,

That’s what I did for ~6 years before I started using Piped with LibRedirect in my browser and LibreTube on my phone. It’s honestly the best YouTube experience I ever had. FreeTube is great if you prefer a desktop app, as well as Yattee with this guide on iOS or SmartTubeNext on Android TV.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

Here I’m just talking about pasting the link into another website to download. I just learned quite a bit from your comment lol.

I’ll definitely be checking out the stuff you linked to

netchami ,

If you want to download YouTube videos, don’t use a website for this. Check out yt-dlp, you can either use the command-line tool or a GUI like yt-dlp-gui or ClipGrab if you want a noob-friendly version. If you need to download Videos on your phone, try Seal.

Also, most of the solutions I mentioned in my previous comment also support video downloading, but it’s not always reliable.

FlavoredButtHair ,
@FlavoredButtHair@lemmy.world avatar

That’s awesome. Can you download playlists with any of those?

netchami ,

I downloaded playlists with yt-dlp many times in the past. I’m not sure about any of the other tools though.

theywilleatthestars ,

Well, it’ll also make my viewing experience worse if I do so…

whats_all_this_then ,

It’s been years since I’ve used YouTube without Revanced, SponsorBlock, and uBlock Origin. The vanilla experience when I see it on other people’s devices horrifies me every single time.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

of course that’s infuriating, but you want to know something else that’s infuriating? I’ve been paying for YouTube PREMIUM all these years, and one of the perks has been that we could hear the audio from videos even when our screen is off, or while multitasking on different apps.

Well imagine my DISMAY over the last few months, that is no longer true for me. The video stops playing after exactly 120 seconds if my screen is off. I’m paying for YouTube PREMIUM! I should be able to hear the audio from the videos when my screen is off!

As far as I know I’m the ONLY one experiencing this because other people on Lemmy have told me they can still hear YouTube audio when their screen is off.

someone please help me. You know how there is no YouTube customer service.

Companion1666 , (edited )

have you tried turn off youtube app’s battery optimization setting. this happened to me before, until i turned off my phone’s battery saver settings.

LemmyKnowsBest ,

Hey, thanks, you may be right. I just checked my settings and it was originally clicked on the last one, restricted. So I switched it to the top one. unrestricted.

And I vaguely recall getting a notification sometime ago that YouTube was taking up too much battery and they asked me if I wanted to optimize the settings? I’m like “sure yeah whatever.”

But since then I think that’s when I haven’t been able to play the video while phone is hibernating or while I multitasking on different apps.

Thank you. hopefully now that I switch the setting I can go back to my full premium perks.

kWazt ,

Or, you know, try LibreTube. Does the job for free, and it includes SponsorBlock. Just don’t forget to change the battery setting to unrestricted.

netchami ,

+1 for LibreWolf, I love it. Would you mind explaining why it’s important to set the battery to unrestricted? I’ve been running it on optimized for a long time and never had any issues.

kWazt ,

Valid question. If I leave LW on optimized, Android will kill it about a minute after I turn my screen off, which ruins my podcast experience (I like to sometimes watch my podcasts as well as some of them are enhanced by visuals)

Willer ,

Mobile game ads are the worst now. I could not turn ads on and watch with others because its soo bad.

Companion1666 ,

it’s all fun and games until youtube builds a wall for unregistered users… ggwp

netchami ,

Just like Twitter…

RealWarrenBuffett ,

And people will fight this even harder.

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