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.
Brave (yes I’m aware ya’ll don’t need to yap at me).
Yep seriously Brave all on its own blocks YouTube ads and no performance issues (likely thanks to being Chromium based).
To address some complaints about Brave you can uh turn that stuff off. I don’t like Crypto so I… have all of that junk disabled. Doesn’t bug me whatsoever. Opt in ads (for their stupid crypto coin) are disabled by default (or least where when I installed). And the CEO is a bad person (surprising I know)
This works great: https://youtube.com/premium
This is pretty cool too: https://sponsor.ajay.app/
For TV clients: https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
For YouTube WO ads on desktop I use Brave, on mobile I use NewPipe, everything going smooth for years.
Newpipe fork and firefox fork with ublock
Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove “accept cookies” banners on sites.
