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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it (mashable.com)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it::undefined

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Me, using Piped: what?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Or Revanced, or SmartTube or NewPipe etc etc. Fortunately and thanks to some great devs out there, we're still able to give Google the big middle finger.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't mind tasteful, well paced ads. That said, I use New pipe and Firefox with Ublock Origin because no one seems to remember what those are.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

uBlock won't block the new popups. You can remove them, but it will still pause the video at the moment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That sucks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

I've found revanced to stop playing the video after a minute or two unless you frequently update it (which is a manual process)... I no longer listen to lectures while I run errands, because there's now no convenient way to do it. Ads are out of the question, and finding a video I want to watch only to have it cut out as I get on the road has killed the experience for me

I'm on Android, and open to suggestions

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Noob question: do I have to run my own piped server to use it?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago

You can, but you can also use one of the many public instances like piped.video, piped.yt and many more

[–] netchami 11 points 10 months ago

No, you don't have to. They have a list of public instances.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Okay. Explain something to me. I’ve tried to use piped, but it’s just so dogshit slow. Unusably so.

What am I doing wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

I am not sure… are you using a shared instance or self-hosting? I self-host my own instance and have no issue since my deployment

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Nothing. It's dogshit.