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Re: Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

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Post by torunar » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 10:55 PM UTC

ddorian43 wrote: post #5

torunar wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Probably your browser isn't using the gpu correctly (example if it was an ubuntu snap)

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!

Re: Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

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Post by ksherlock » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 12:48 PM UTC

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #4

One word: invidious

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

Re: Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

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Post by gaws » Wed, Jun 12, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #4

One word: invidious

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.

Re: Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

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Post by Am4TIfIsER0ppos » Thu, Jun 13, 2024, 9:20 AM UTC

gaws wrote: post #13

Am4TIfIsER0ppos wrote: post #4

One word: invidious

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.

Updates also break yt-dlp and I assume the same is true about this freetube.