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Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

10 points by Ahmedb 2y ago

A lot of people on reddit are reporting strange behavior when using Firefox and uBlock origin on Youtube like infinite back to back ads and failure to play videos. https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/1atwzem/comment/l82adtm/

shzhdbi09gv8ioi 2y ago
I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features: - Ad blocking - SponsorBlock - Subscriptions without account - Latest videos from your subscriptions - Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript - and more making youtube a usable thing again https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
- torunar 2y ago
  I’d also would like to add that in my case FreeTube has lower resource impact than YouTube in a browser. When I was watching YouTube videos in a browser, my CPU fan was running constantly which is not the case with FreeTube: the fan never starts when I use the app.
  - ddorian43 2y ago
    Probably your browser isn't using the gpu correctly (example if it was an ubuntu snap)
    - torunar 2y ago
      I tried both Firefox and Chrome/Edge under Windows 10 running on my MacBook Pro from 2019 — they have this issue. FreeTube doesn’t and I’m happy!
- smarm52 2y ago
  Also: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
One word: invidious
- ksherlock 2y ago
  I love invidious but two or three times a month, youtube rolls out an update that breaks it. eg, last week (not yet bypassed): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734 https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734
- gaws 2y ago
  Invidious isn't stable. YouTube keeps pushing releases that break it, and Invidious is too slow to keep up. Freetube and `yt-dlp` are the only way forward.
  - Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
    Updates also break yt-dlp and I assume the same is true about this freetube.
petercooper 2y ago
Video transcoding at scale seems such a "solved problem" nowadays, I'm surprised YouTube hasn't moved to baking ads into the main video stream directly when they're served to non-Premium users - they control the player so could still let people skip them after certain time periods, etc. Maybe the revenue lost to extra compute needed doesn't balance out yet.
- bobdvb 2y ago
  Encoding is terribly computationally expensive. You wouldn't want to do it at scale for every viewer, the RoI would be poor. What you can do, is splice in pre-encoded ads and that works okay if done correctly. It's also practically impossible to detect/block.
anbardoi 2y ago
Use FreeTube
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10 points by Ahmedb 2y ago

shzhdbi09gv8ioi 2y ago

I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features: - Ad blocking - SponsorBlock - Subscriptions without account - Latest videos from your subscriptions - Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript - and more making youtube a usable thing again https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

torunar 2y ago
I’d also would like to add that in my case FreeTube has lower resource impact than YouTube in a browser. When I was watching YouTube videos in a browser, my CPU fan was running constantly which is not the case with FreeTube: the fan never starts when I use the app.
- ddorian43 2y ago
  Probably your browser isn't using the gpu correctly (example if it was an ubuntu snap)
  - torunar 2y ago
    I tried both Firefox and Chrome/Edge under Windows 10 running on my MacBook Pro from 2019 — they have this issue. FreeTube doesn’t and I’m happy!
smarm52 2y ago
Also: https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago

One word: invidious

ksherlock 2y ago
I love invidious but two or three times a month, youtube rolls out an update that breaks it. eg, last week (not yet bypassed): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734 https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734
gaws 2y ago
Invidious isn't stable. YouTube keeps pushing releases that break it, and Invidious is too slow to keep up. Freetube and `yt-dlp` are the only way forward.
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 2y ago
  Updates also break yt-dlp and I assume the same is true about this freetube.

petercooper 2y ago

Video transcoding at scale seems such a "solved problem" nowadays, I'm surprised YouTube hasn't moved to baking ads into the main video stream directly when they're served to non-Premium users - they control the player so could still let people skip them after certain time periods, etc. Maybe the revenue lost to extra compute needed doesn't balance out yet.

bobdvb 2y ago
Encoding is terribly computationally expensive. You wouldn't want to do it at scale for every viewer, the RoI would be poor. What you can do, is splice in pre-encoded ads and that works okay if done correctly. It's also practically impossible to detect/block.

anbardoi 2y ago

Use FreeTube

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