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YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household (www.androidpolice.com)
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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Firefox + ublock origin still works to block all YouTube ads

Invidious is a frontend for YouTube that blocks all their trackers and ads

PeerTube is an alternative community ran platform to replace YouTube in the future

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    ff+ubo+privacy badger (ff on my distro suggested privacy badger, can't remember exact number but when ubo blocks over ~1k privacy badger has like 2 - 4 on it, surprising me a little there are not more trackers) on pc, my phone has no adblocking atm and I know their info on me is wrong because all I do see are gambling ads and I have never gone to a gambling site, I don't even get the scam game ads my gf does on her phone. One day I may try out one of the "delete my dam info" places just to see how much they really have on me

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Just use Firefox Mobile to watch YouTube.

    Ad blocking through uBO and can enable playing with locked screen.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I keep trying to convert my friends to using Firefox mobile for this reason. I generally try not to evangelise too much, but I have so many friends who keep complaining about ads when browsing the internet on mobile, and this would literally solve their problem. One friend complained about ads so frequently that they ended up getting irked at me telling them the problem was solvable. Our unhappy compromise was that I would stop telling them to use Firefox and uBO if they stopped complaining about this so much in front of me.

    I respect their choices, but by God, I'm baffled by them. I get that inertia makes it hard to make switches like this, but when you're spending so much time complaining about how much effort it takes to use the internet on your mobile, why would you not just solve the problem?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I had someone say "Well, yours doesn't do ads" and, in the year of 5 manufacturers pumping out 10 different SKUs a year, we had the same model phone.

    I said "Yours doesn't have to, if you set it up that way."

    The answer? "Well, c'mon, play the video."

    Like, yeah, let's just brush past the... What? Five or six tap solution? And before anyone asks, not a romantic opening. Generally people don't make passes at bridge trolls who evangelize for open source software.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I really wanted to like and use Peertube more, but it's so devoid of any content aside from political podcasts, as far as I can tell. I can't tell if the search function is bad, or I'm using it wrong, or there really is just that little content. Any recommendations for Peertube content?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Invidious sadly doesn't allow for an account and subscriptions, at least not without running your own server which appears... complex.

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