Wut? I just avoid u toob most of the time - problem solved. Rarely do I have a web search that would be solved by watching a video.
Updating Firefox suddenly fixed this for me. I then later just had my entire google account banned and I had to create a new account. They even attempted to IP ban me as well. Said I was banned until 2036 or something like that.
Your account got banned from YouTube, or you got banned from Google and it’s apps?
Please reply to this dorumon
If it’s a ban from the whole google echo-system that is fucked up. I sadly still have a lot of important stuff linked to my google account.
+, I’ve been untangling from Google for years, still find the odd thing going to Gmail that could screw me over
I’ve started recently too. Slow and steady. But if this is true, I need to hurry tf up. It’s sad we (in Sweden) practically HAVE to have a google account since we use an app called BankID for everything with banking and identifying ourself with the government. So no google account ≈ no id
You can get the BankID for your bc but only for windows and I don’t have a windows pc anymore.
So you lost access to gmail as well?
Ok Google, free us from our sins. Clense our souls, show us the way to green grass
Well if this happens to me it’s off to pipe pipe or new pipe again.
PipePipe hasn’t worked for me in a minute. Maybe because I’m using a VPN? Not sure.
I mirror my yt channel that feeds my family to peertube for my viewers. No one watches it, but I’ll keep trying.
Please share a link to your peertube channel :)
They will still inject ads to your home feed even if you get premium. I noticed the “Introducing” titled video recommendations which are usually 1-2 mins and they essentially place an item in your home feed. When I asked support they confirmed they were targeted ads but you don’t have to click them LMAO. Filthy lying company.
If YouTube ever gets rid of the reverse chronological subscriptions feed, I’m so out. I quit Twitter when they got rid of the reverse chronological feed forever ago, as it just felt useless and confusing at that point. As it is, YT is barely usable with premium, and is only enjoyable with revanced, Grayjay, and browser plugins. Sigh.
What is the reverse thing?
Reverse chronological just means in order of publish date, but most recent first.
Just use RSS
i just use grayjay tbh
Is there an app on AppleTV that allows you to connect to a local instance?
“Based on these reports, users see a message stating “Comments are turned off,” which appears across a wide range of videos”
Seems like a win to me.
Comments can be useful to know if what you are watchin contains the information you’re looking for
“Comments are turned off”
Damn, they’re really upping their game.
download yt videos and lets reupload everything onto peertube idk
Theres a reason that youtube has no real competitor.
because the amount of data that gets uploaded to youtube every day, every hour, is unfathomable.
I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point. Just from a data center/harddrive point of view alone, the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it.
There is no real way to compete with youtube directly.
Only options are things that are not direct youtube competitors, Which are typically much smaller, possibly maintaining a narrow subject focus, and require monthly fees/subscriptions to access
the amount of money would be so staggering as to be impossible for anyone but another giant evil company to have a hope at being able to afford it… FACK
I dont even know if its possible to create a proper competitor to youtube at this point.
There is. People just wouldn’t like it. Lowering the resolution and framerates massively to save on space. The nerds (derogatory) would trash the platform everywhere they can have a voice if it doesn’t support 4k 120fps, though.
Even if you limit it to 720p, if it were to be even a quarter as popular as youtube, the bandwith and storage requirements would still be astronomical.
not to even mention the computational power required to process and transcode all that data from whatever format you upload it to, into whatever format the platform wants.
i agree with you
fuck Youtube ads.
I’m only going to click these Articles when my adblocker actually stops working, its basically clickbait until then.
As usual they’re deploying it in waves. I can confirm i get no description, no comments and when watching a playlist it will play the first few seconds then it will display “content unavailable” and switch to the next video. If I disable ublock origin or if I logout everything goes back to normal.
I’ve got the same deal. YouTube in my browser is effectively useless. But there are always ways to circumvent the bullshit.
uBlock Origin on Firefox with default settings and filterlists still works successfully on Youtube.
Stopped working for me last weekend if i’m logged in. Youtube deploy this kind of things in waves usually.
Raymond Hill is the absolut GOAT
“No way around it” always ends the same After 2 days uBlock just works.
Taking no donations, just maintaining out of pure spite
Love to see it
Spite is a form of currency. lol
spite and hatred are incredibly powerful motivators.
No, you’re thinking of Sprite, specifically the bottle caps.
I’m still waiting for them to just to implement Wildvine. It has to happen at some point.
Yes, I wonder why they hadn’t done it yet, except for paid movies.
Yeah, they probably already have the tooling in place. Maybe the power (heat + work) cost to encode a Mr. Beast video hurts the profit too much.
Maybe they’re afraid of putting widevine at the working end of the likes of ublock origin and brave. iIIRC some of the WV keys are in the wild, they just keep em close to the action not to make them rotate them out.
yes, that thing :)
Works on my machine fails to account for A/B testing. Everytime someone says something’s not working, they also mean it’s not working on my machine/account.
uBlock origin is the same code on mine or yours machine. It does not need a graphics card, nor uses some particular instuctions of the CPU.
On Firefox Stable on Flathub at the time of writing, with default settings and default lists, it will work as expected on Youtube.Google does not always provide the same Youtube code/challenges to you and me. That’s what A/B testing is about.
Is uBlock Origin working for you specifically, enabling it alone with no other add-on?
So seamless that I didn’t even notice
Yep. Still working on mine. I also use windows 10. Dunno if that matters or not.
Mine isn’t working flawlessly with this exact set up, but it’s just forcing me to refresh the page every time I load a new video. Still no ads.
Are you using other add-ons?
Nope, just uBlock. If I disable uBlock before loading the page everything works fine as well, so I’m pretty sure it’s uBlock.
But I’m on Linux (openSuse Tumbleweed) and have had some interesting “distro specific” bugs in recent months, so I’m chalking it up to “my OS + Firefox” and not “uBlock”
I am also on openSUSE Tumbleweed, but using Flatpak Firefox.
Perhaps you can try disabling hardware acceleration in Firefox to see if it chinges anyting.Reporting back, you were absolutely correct. Hardware acceleration was turned back on, and turning it off fixed the problem.
I’ll give it a shot. I don’t use flatpaks, but I think I’ve already disabled hardware acceleration for a previous issue? I’ll report back once I’ve checked/tried it out.
Had some issues a few days ago. Then the brave army of Brave browser helped quickly. The other browsers should be ok now too with addons. I do not see any problem with videos any more. Still, the dependance on Youtube is terrible, most of the vids are there and there is no serious alternative. One day, hopefully, there will be. Maybe we need to pivot and someone should come with something very new, unrestricted, moderated by community, unstoppable and with no ads. When you do not pay or do not use add blockers, watching anything is almost impossible.
There are alternatives, but there’s nothing that pays and promotes like Youtube. The content creators are in it for the cash, or at the very least wouldn’t not be in it if it weren’t for the cash. They can’t even dual post their Youtube stuff because it would be parasitic to their YT income.
Gonna use this thread to shout out https://github.com/YTLitePlus/YTLitePlus There are more than enough options for android users out there, this one is for iOS though. Tried it out this weekend on my jailbroken iPhone 6. If i read it correctly it should also be installable without a jailbreak but not that easily. Its super cool and nowadays it feels so weird that you got the option to do such shocking things like disabling shorts or reorder the tabs, its really fun.
I’ve stopped using YouTube for the most part. Cut down a lot once they broke the search function and I could no longer find what I was looking for because every result would be flooded with random shorts and other irrelevant content.
Then, my account, which was made in either 05 or 06, got flagged as belonging to a minor and they asked me to verify my age with an ID. Why this even happened when the account itself is over 18 now, and I’m not in the US (which I thought was the only place their age verification BS was being implemented) is beyond me.
I wish there were more options for long form video sharing, since YouTube seems to be the only viable platform for it at the moment.
YT search is completely broken. It used to be that the first 3-4 videos were relevant and the rest were YT shorts or stuff you previously watched. Now, not even the first result is related to what I search for. I have to use Google in order to get the video I actually want. Even incognito in YT doesn’t help much nowadays.
I got flagged as a minor, despite an old account. They would not accept my card that I pay for premium with as a valid card. It’s valid enough to pay them the stupid fucks.
You can do the selfie thing, except use a 4k video of someone talking to the screen and it’ll probably work. I used an Evan Edinger video, scanned that and passed fairly easily. AI probably works if you can get a high fidelity image but all the free ones are well under 1080p and just don’t really register.
I cant imagine flagging a whole account over 18 years old as attached to a minor.
alot of time its right wing shorts, or thirst traps videos. and this from not logging in.
