Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads

Post by Ahmedb » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 8:24 AM UTC

Post by torunar » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 8:57 AM UTC

shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #2

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

Post by ddorian43 » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 11:00 AM UTC

torunar wrote: post #3

shzhdbi09gv8ioi wrote: post #2

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

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.

Post by anbardoi » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 11:53 AM UTC

Post by bobdvb » Tue, Jun 11, 2024, 1:32 PM UTC

petercooper wrote: post #6

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.