I use Firefox and the uBlock Origin addon as my default browser setup. It works great…except for on youtube. I used to use it happily for youtube with all Ads blocked, but two recent youtube changes made me have to use a different browser and extension, just for youtube.
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Firefox users started noticing degraded performance on youtube vs when they viewed youtube with Chrome.
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uBlock Origin users in Chrome and Firefox appear to be being targeted with an intermittent covert punishment of having any videos above 360p throttled so that they buffer heavily.
So my current approach, just for youtube, is Chrome with Clear Skies ad skipper extension which gets me good performance and no ads.
What is your setup for youtube without ads?
I’m also interested in youtube alternatives, especially for music.
I’ve had zero issues watching YouTube on Firefox with ublock origin. Not one warning received,no performance issues.
I am in the U.S. and with no change on my end (Firefox w Ublock Origin) I suddenly began getting all the ads. I noticed it would only happen when I was logged into YouTube/Google though. Creating a new account solved the problem for me with no change to the browser.
Maybe they only roll out their Ublock bypass to select groups of users at one time. Perhaps this is part of some kind of testing?
I’ve also been told that if you have any other browser extensions installed, the Ublock Origin on Firefox trick may not work.
Here’s my no-ads YouTube set
windows, Linux Block ads and sponsored sections, optinal invidious proxy, no YouTube login, offline subscription list
https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/
Android TV, Block ads and sponsored sections, smart tv optimized, youtube login if you want to see your subscriptions
android, Block ads, offline subscription list
I am using firefox with uBP and didn’t noticed a single problem you mentioned. It works fine without any degraded performance or buffering even with 4k 60fps.
Firefox and uBlock Origin works just fine for blocking YouTube ads. You probably have some other add-on interfering with it that triggers the adblock detection. Restore your adblocker default setting and disable other extensions for YouTube and it should work.
use Invidious instances with the help of privacy libredirect plugin to redirect youtube links to invidious instances. you won’t see another youtube ad again.
