The Youtube Anti-Ad Blocker Campaign and how to survive without Youtube - All Jewtoob hate goes here

I Love Beef

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As you know, I'm fellow KiwiFarmer I Love Beef, and today's thread I'm going to talk about is the topic of Youtube beginning to ramp up its anti-ad blocker frequencies.

For some, tl;dr backstory on my stance with Youtube, much like a lot of hipster faggotry and Silicon Valley and pozzed South California, they are all a bunch of pussies. Youtube once had Viacom by the balls ages ago around 2008 regarding copyright, but since sold out to guzzle down megacorporate jizz for pennies on end. So as you see, that all rolled down hill to where we are all now.

Youtube recently has been on a massive crackdown on users and browsers that use adblocker programs (or apps), likely inspired by Netflix cracking down on usersharing and upping its prices, which has stupidly gotten its viewer base to subscribe more and more. From personal experience, Chrome users were the first ones targeted (it's google after all), and since then anyone using non-Chrome browsers have been typically harrassed with anti-adblocker notifications. Recently, Youtube has now implemented a three video watch limit strike rule for browsers with anti-adblocker programs, and with the coming of Halloween, I wouldn't put it past them doing so to be strategic to get people to access their movie library.

I've created this topic because well, fuck Youtube and fuck its penny pinching and stupid backass Hollywood stool monkey life support whipping boy fuckery. I stopped allowing ads on Youtube especially because of it showcasing commercials of Purge II back in the day (fuck those pearlclutching breads & circus movies), and along with me pursuing the everlasting goal of boycotting Amazon for being inhumane employers, why not do the same?

Thankfully, I'm old and I am reliant on old media to pass my time on this existence. I've made this thread as a sort of guide because, don't mind me downing the blackpill on this subject, I don't have much faith in Youtube at this point, and with how things are going regarding things online, I think it's going to get much more bleaker from here on out. Wars are breaking out, the economy's in a squeeze, you don't think they're shitting their pants at this rate? Cutting out all of that, if they're going to get this assy about ad revenue from people who don't watch their monkeys dance, I'm gonna leave, plain and simple.

So, with that declaration being said, fuck Youtube. I'm going to try to make a guide about this shit in the meanwhile.
 
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Fucking gold. Can be slightly janky, and you need to read the docs for how to enable DASH for high resolutions and the best streaming experience (A few instances have DASH enabled by default.)
There's also a project called Piped. If you want to use the official Youtube frontend, use uBlock Origin (not just "uBlock", uBlock Origin) because uBO is updated very quickly.

Edit: I started using Invidious after Youtube literally started crashing my fucking browser tabs. Invidious is less bullshit, and IIRC you can even use it without JS!
 
I share in your feelings @I Love Beef; the future doesn't look good for YouTube. I second FreeTube as a current solution to this problem. My only big complaint about this one is that it doesn't have the tab feature yet, so you end up with a lot of separate windows.

I will try other options listed here, like Invidious (thank you @Creative Username)

A couple of other tips for the short term situation:
  • I still have not received any warning or notification about ad blocking on the mobile app version of Opera.
  • Watching videos in post draft previews here on Kiwi Farm has helped me get around the lockout several times (at least for videos that can be embedded).
This boastful report about huge advertising revenues only increases my defiance. I don't know who is falling for these tactics, but it is not me.
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I've experienced none of this on my desktop (just firefox with ublock origin and sponsorblock for youtube) or my phone (revanced).
Not saying it won't happen eventually, but I'll just...stop watching youtube if that happens. Over the years my library of good tv shows and movies has grown quite considerably, youtube is just convenient.
 
RE: FreeTube, it actually uses Invidious's API under the hood. It's just a convenient desktop wrapper that paves over some of the jank.
Watching videos in post draft previews here on Kiwi Farm has helped me get around the lockout several times (at least for videos that can be embedded).
That's... uh... creative. It ain't stupid if it works, though.
 
>using jewtube
>not using newpipe
I warned you niggercattle faggots about jewtube back in April, and you didn't listen. Now it's too late for you!

Back to reddit-tube, normies, the Newpipe pool is closed!
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Brave + Sponsorblock for desktop
NewPipe for mobile

I've seen jack shit of this gayop. Still missing Vanced though. RIP.
 
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I download videos with yt-dlp on desktop and seal on Android and use Brave browser with ublock origin. I think my VPN service also blocks ads. So far this whole ad war has not affected me at all.

I tried newpipe and invidious and other alternative frontends for over a year but my they are too slow and crashy. I've gone back to using YouTube.com and it's much less frustrating.
 
which has stupidly gotten its viewer base to subscribe more and more.
That really surprises me. I know one person watches Netflix any more. A friend of mine watches their slop like BloodDragon even though he hates them. My parents are subscribed only because it comes free with their TV package.

They are goose stepping inch by inch into every browser & user. They WILL eventually come for you.
That's why I want to download a personal archive of backlogged videos. I need to decide what. Most stuff I view on YouTube is either new, really old and already archived, or things I didn't want to watch until recently (eg. Programming tutorials).

I need to figure out how to use yt-dlp properly. I muddle through by putting links and commands into a short cut, but for more advanced stuff I need to figure out the command line.
 
That's why I want to download a personal archive of backlogged videos. I need to decide what. Most stuff I view on YouTube is either new, really old and already archived, or things I didn't want to watch until recently (eg. Programming tutorials).

I need to figure out how to use yt-dlp properly. I muddle through by putting links and commands into a short cut, but for more advanced stuff I need to figure out the command line.
You can add all the videos you want to a public playlist on your own account and then feed yt-dlp the url to that playlist and you're done.
 
I use freetube for the most part, but I have used youtube a bit more recently to see how this adblocking situation plays out.

Now some people in my house have been hit with the warning, but I have still yet to see it on my system. I am not doing anything special, but here are a few things I am using which might explain why I still havent seen it.

1. Libre - Thats my browser, its basically a hardened firefox.
2. Cookies - Not sure if this matters, but I have session cookies for almost every website, so each time I go onto youtube its with no history of ever being their other than my ip.
3. Sign in feature - I do not use this, and have not for a long time. So I am just a public nonsigned in shitebag. I use a script to bypass age restricted, and feedbro rss for any channels I keep up with.
4. The videos. I am wondering if my tendency to smaller channels is something to do with it. Not a single channel I watch often is over 100k subs (its niche shit), and the music I check out is bad sounding black metal, so obscure. So I wonder if they are using it on channels that can actually run ads, or just the larger channels to have a better look at its impact.

I just opened a few videos from the trending page and nothing popped the warning. Either way, I am for some reason are not getting these warnings.
 
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Since 2015 I've been a big advocate of the biggest adblocker.... just download the damn videos.

You go into a vid only long enough to copy its URL, then paste it on a downloader site, and bam... unlimited watching and no ads.... or tracking watch time..... or any other bullshit...
 
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