Ublock dashboard, filter lists, purge cache and update. Should work
this post was submitted on 03 Sep 2023
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Ok I should try doing this.
Purge your filters and redownload. It's a problem on your end.
I installed freetube in preparation of this, haven't used youtube itself all week either freetube or invidious and both work well for now, would recommend both if you're open to them
I've been doing the same! Freetube works quite well
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watched a free movie on yt for the first time in a couple months last thursday. i knew about the new war on adblockers, so i had updated ublock origin's filter list cache first.
worked fine no ads, even got 1080p, which i rarely ever see for the 'legit' mainstream tv shows and movies they have.
even got 1080p
What's up with that by the way? I constantly watch videos in 720p that advertise 4K in the title.
I think they will offer higher bitrates if you use chrome instead of firefox
It seems really inconsitent though. On some videos I have the option and sometimes not.
Can you choose 4K from the little gear icon in the bottom right corner of the player?
Not trying to defend YouTube, but I think they align video quality to network speed so you can watch without buffering.
No, I can't manually set hit higher either
the big content providers and studios often don't allow a higher bitrate or resolution in a third-party (to the os its on) browser.... i hardly ever see 1080p available on that free stuff on yt.
I don't think that applies to content that doesn't have DRM, and except music videos generally none has.
I don't know about the youtube interface because I haven't used in it a long time, but there's no problem with it through piped and invidious.
Still working for me. The second it stops I'm out of there.
Mine is working fine but Sabine Hossenfelder made a pro-capitalism video that ignores the deterioration of the global market in the 20th century. Can someone send her a bugfix?
Sir this a is a community about firefox
That part is working. Yes. Good job!
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I'm using these. YouTube still works, but I haven't used the 'Home' tab since the nag screen about turning watch history on. I won't. My subs still work fine. I'm in the process of manually building my list in https://freetubeapp.io/ (can't get the import to work)
I'd ditch AdBlock Plus. uBlock origin is better in every regard and there's no acceptable ads bullshit:
I would also remove DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials. It is redundant if you are using uBlock Origin.
I use Librewolf (Firefox fork with enabled protections against trackers and spyware) with uBlock origin. And I had no issues so far with youtube.
P.S. Also, couldn't remember the last time I saw "please turn off adblock" nagging on random websites... or an ad...
I don't know, I don't use it... :)
It's easy to stop using these sites if you feel disgusted by them.
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I can help with other things but not going to Google controlled websites.
Maybe reply in other threads then.
No, unfortunately it isn't, just as it is not easy to "just stop using windows/gmail/"
Everything worthwhile in life takes effort. If you care enough, you will make the effort. Otherwise you won't. :)
Use invidious
Google also rate limiting some Invidious instances.
I haven't had an issue. Anyway if you have a problem you can switch instances
Works fine on desktop here, on mobile I just use Newpipe
Still working for me. Only change I noticed is that the edges of the video player are rounded now.
Samet thing happened to me thsn got fixed by itself, I switched to piped tho in case they win the war on adblock
Carefull tho piped is getting blocked by youtube
Stopped working yesterday now I just find what I want to watch and watch it on piped. It's a little more annoying but less annoying than the endless ads every few minutes
Purging the filters of uBlock worked for me, maybe it'll help you too. But I was using piped too.
I was gonna say youtube-dl is still an option, too.
It was same for me. Luckily the top solution worked.
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Had the same problem with my Firefox and uBlock Origin install. Had to purge and update the filter lists in uBlock Origin and after that Youtube was working again.
Same for me with uBlock Origin, until I have updated to version 1.51.0