Why do this? Because surveillance capitalism wants you to be less free. It wants you to be glued to the screen. It wants you to buy whatever advertisers want you to buy. But you can fight back by deliberately poisoning your data.

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[–] 13 points 9 months ago (11 children)

If you're on android, you can use an app like NewPipe to view YouTube content without actually going to YouTube. https://f-droid.org/packages/org.schabi.newpipe

On a browser, you can use an invidious instance like https://yewtu.be. That also lets you view YouTube content ad free without signing in.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    invidious instances never work for me, but with this one i could get further than ever, but when trying to play a video i get this error: “The media could not be loaded, either because the server or network failed or because the format is not supported.”

    what could this be?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    thank you object and slempt for your feedback. so investigating yewtu.be does work on desktop without any problems, but on my iphone it depends on which browser and dns blocker i use. can anyone recommend a good newpipe substitute for iOS?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    sorry, i didn’t find the alternative list, can you send me a link please?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Pipepipe supersedes newpipe doesn't it? That's what I'm using anyhow.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (1 child)

    Pipepipe is a hard fork of newpipe. I prefer it myself because of sponsorblock and the danmaku comments.

    Those are niconicodouga style comments across the video.

    Niconicodouga is a Japanese video sharing platform similar to YouTube in function and age. I think it's older even.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    That's what that's called? I remember being so annoyed by that and forgetting how I solved it lol.

    Ya from what I recall newpipe was broken for a good amount of time and someone forked to pipepipe and it seems updated more frequently.

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