You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now

There’s already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.

They’re both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).

Both don’t load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.

Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here

  • PorkSoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
    107·
    1 year ago

    I was about to say add uBlock Origin to that list but apparently they don’t accept donations per the bottom of their homepage.

    I will not accept donations or sponsorships of any kind.

    That’s some fuck you energy right there.

    • forensic_potato@lemmy.worldEnglish
      62·
      1 year ago

      Lmao serious ‘fuck you’ energy.

      Out of curiosity I went to the project’s page and saw more info on why they don’t take donations:

      Free. Open-source. For users by users. No donations sought. If you ever want to contribute something, think about the people working hard to maintain the filter lists you are using, which are available to use by all for free.