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The link[1] to the Firefox add-on page on your Github repo is dead. Has this just not been published yet? [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/yt-siphon/
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Lookig at it source (the page downloaded when you open a YT link pointing to a video), it's almost certain that YT doesn't load without JS. It's not an html page with some extra functionality implemented in JS, it's a web app that builds the web page you see from JS. So firefox can't do much about it without actively trying to circumvent YT and YT specifically. I don't think browsers made the turn you mention. It's m…
> So firefox can't do much about it without actively trying to circumvent YT and YT specifically. There's no reason why Firefox couldn't do that. > Also, you can't have an ad-free experience if the price of using a service is that the ad is delivered to you. Sure I can, uBlock Origin provides exactly that. They are not entitled to my attention. If they have a problem with that, they can return 402 Payment Required.
> Sure I can, uBlock Origin provides exactly that.
Obviously, I meant that it doesn't work financially so there is no point being upset about it. If enough people block the ads then they'll do something about it. Actually it's not hypothetical anymore, I just started to see these warnings a few days ago. (I wasn't deliberately blocking the ads, I've been just using ghostery which, it seems, started blocking YT ads.) So yeah, in the end, as you also say, people in general can't consume ad supported services without paying with their attention. It just doesn't work business wise.
As others mentioned: https://libredirect.github.io/ It redirects so many pages to their privacy friendly frontends. Can't use the internet anymore without this extension.
It would be nice if browsers were able to get around all these kinds of shenanigans directly, instead of having to always reach for extensions and addons and endlessly participate in this cat and mouse game. After all, the browser is supposed to be the user's agent. Its job is to do what the user wants and fetch the content that the user asks for. Somewhere along the path, we've made a terrible turn and allowed the b…
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The issue is that Invidious only supports 720p
Not true, please consult the documentation: https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#table-of-contents