I use Firefox and the uBlock Origin addon as my default browser setup. It works great…except for on youtube. I used to use it happily for youtube with all Ads blocked, but two recent youtube changes made me have to use a different browser and extension, just for youtube.

  1. Firefox users started noticing degraded performance on youtube vs when they viewed youtube with Chrome.

  2. uBlock Origin users in Chrome and Firefox appear to be being targeted with an intermittent covert punishment of having any videos above 360p throttled so that they buffer heavily.

So my current approach, just for youtube, is Chrome with Clear Skies ad skipper extension which gets me good performance and no ads.

What is your setup for youtube without ads?

I’m also interested in youtube alternatives, especially for music.

  • drawerair@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    1 year ago

    Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove “accept cookies” banners on sites.

  • Davokin@feddit.de
    7·
    1 year ago

    I switched to Arch Linux as my operating system a few years ago, and here I use the FreeTube app from the AUR. It’s a third party frontend for YouTube, similar to Nitter for Twitter (X).

    And for work (Windows) I watch YouTube via Invidious instances, e.g. https://yewtu.be also a third party frontend for YouTube

  • Kissaki@feddit.deEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Firefox, uBlock Origin, adguard DNS, sponsorblock (crowdsourced video sections with auto skip), DeArrow (crowdsourced clickbait replacement), nyancat seek/progress bar, playback speed control, Dark Reader.

    Same setup on Windows desktop and my Android devices.

    I’ve noticed videos stopping and buffering after the first few seconds, but not always, and seemingly less so again. It was acceptable to me.

  • 0x0@programming.devEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    uBlock Origin’s ben working fine for me on Firefox, but then again i don’t consume that much youtube nor would i bother.

      • folak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        1 year ago

        I don’t see the advantage of using newpipe when you can get youtube revanced.

        • nintendoit@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          1 year ago

          Vanced simply applies some of the patches over youtube app if I understand currently(I have never used vanced myself), while newpipe is an app to use various video sources (such as youtube, soundcloud, media.ccc.de etc.) created entirely from scratch.

          • folak@lemmy.worldEnglish
            11·
            1 year ago

            Yep NewPipe works with various video sources and Vanced is not youtube revanced, you can do a lot of things (called patches) to have a incredible youtube app.

            Here you can see all the patches possible in YouTube Revanced : https://revanced.app/patches?s=com.google.android.youtube

            I suggest for all to uninstall Newpipe and try YouTube Revanced. (or LibreTube for a privacy-friendly youtube app)

      • folak@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Nop, see the guide above. You can use it with using microg.

        BTW : vanced is not revanced.

      • Lunch@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yes it does! It has also implemented DeArrow for better/normal video thumbnails and titles. Here is a pic of some of the settings >>

  • alt43.es@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    The simplest thing has been to use Brave + uBlock. NewPipe doesn’t allow me to search within the same channel, so I discarded it.