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Has anyone had any luck/difficulties with YouTube lately? (self.privacy)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Reverendender to c/[email protected]

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I was trying to airplay a video to my tv, just like I did for hours last night, and YouTube kept demanding that I login to prove I’m not a bot. So I figured I would make a fake login on Proton. That worked fine, but then it wants to text me for verification and obviously I do not want to give them my number, but it’s rejecting every number I try from the temp number sites.

I am in Safari for iPad in a private window, using vinegar.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Use SmartTube on Android TV and Fire TV. Cast from Brave browser on Apple TV or Roku.

[–] Reverendender 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I don't trust Brave, honestly

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Firefox focus works for me!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Me either, but it is effective at blocking YouTube ads on iOS for free 🤷🏼‍♂️

There are other paid options, and other side loading options as well. But Brave is easy and it works. I only use it for youtube.com on my iPad, so I'm personally fine with allowance for that.

[–] Reverendender 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

Fair point. I respect your arguments. What are the actual benefits of using Brave in this scenario?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

It's pretty capable of blocking a lot of YouTube and Google bullshit. You could just use it for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

It blocks the YT ads. Watch video, cast to TV. Isn't that what your original question was? I mentioned SmartTube in my 1st reply as it's the best adblocked YT experience on a TV for sure, but it does require an Android based set top box or TV OS. If you are in an Apple ecosystem, use brave just for casting YT to TV.

[–] Reverendender 1 points 1 month ago

Yeah I’m just Apple, and I will not be permitting my TV to ever access the internet on its own. 😕

[–] Jumuta 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

on ios there's orion browser which is still webkit based but supports firefox extensions like ublock

unfortunately it's prolly never going to be foss, the devs said they were working on making it foss 2 years ago and they haven't done anything

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Wait, what are the problems with Brave?

[–] yonder 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Crypto currency built in and not open source.