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While we're on the subject of youtube annoyances: are there any extensions that disable "ambient mode?" This infuriating feature provides nothing useful and absolutely murders Apple Silicon GPUs, draining the battery very, very quickly.
I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.
It’s likely to come and go as they fight an arms race.
For those with ubO who still see them, cleaning the cache and updating the filters within ubO seems to help.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.
Nitter on the other hand has been doing fine on my end. Instances with heavy traffic, such as nitter.net, do frequently run into rate limiting errors. But if you use relatively more obscure instances, then almost nothing has changed.
I'm using ublock Origin and have never seen any of those. For those with ubO who still see them, cleaning the cache and updating the filters within ubO seems to help. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...
As a side benefit, invidious can block comments and related videos so it's a better experience.
javascript:window.location=%22https://[your favorite invidious implementation]/watch%22+document.location.search
I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Thanks for sharing your setup, might look into that. In my case, the reason I decided to create the extension is that I didn't want to completely leave YT per se, but rather use the recommendations and browse the homepage and actually watch what I want on an alternative frontend.
I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to libreddit or old.reddit, Google Maps to openstreetmap and other stuff. Redirects can be enabled/disabled to ones taste. That's quite neat. Combined with my private invidious instance so I can subscribe to channels without this data leaving compute…
Are nitter instances still working? I was under the impression that project died when Elon curtailed api access.
nitter.nl/net work, but without RSS.
Many of the other instances have become unreliable.
Somewhere along the path, we've made a terrible turn and allowed the browsers to become agents of the web developers instead, gatekeeping on behalf of web sites, rather than serving the user's interests.
My ideal browser would load up a site like YouTube, and, knowing my already-configured preference for ad-free, minimalist layout, would present it as a Craigslist-style list of links with thumbnails, ignoring the mess of JS and CSS that the site's developer futilely sends.