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Youtube slowing down due to addblock (www.tomsguide.com)

submitted 8 months ago by hurtn@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Any suggestions on alternatives for blocking adds?

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[-] Pons_Aelius@kbin.social 131 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

firefox and ublock, which works for me. From what I have read this is happening to chrome users.

Or Newpipe

or Revanced

or Freetube.

[-] cuntonabike@lemmy.world 50 points 8 months ago

Or uYou on iOS

Or SmartTube on android TV

[-] Rascabin@lemmy.ml 11 points 8 months ago

You don't have to jailbreak an apple device anymore, side loading works?

[-] cuntonabike@lemmy.world 17 points 8 months ago

You don’t have to jailbreak, you just have to use AltStore and “renew” the app every 7 days. It’s a bit of a pain in the ass in all honesty but it’s still better than watching ads.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 8 months ago

Try Yattee: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yattee/id1595136629

[-] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Yattee is so much slower than uYOU. You can also go to any instance url on safari browser and add it to the homescreen and use inviduous as a webapp. But neither one works as good as uYOU when I'm out on the road.

[-] ImFresh3x@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Also:

If you have access to an Apple dev account this is avoidable.

[-] techgearwhips@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

Even more of a pain for me because I am on Linux so have to spin up my Windows 11 VM just to use altstore.

[-] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

There’s also Yattee for iOS on the App Store. It uses an Invidious instance and I guess because the piracy isn’t part of the app itself it passes the rules? There are plenty of public instances. It also has SponsorBlock built in.

Here’s the app: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/yattee/id1595136629