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YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete (www.yahoo.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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YouTube has been spotted testing server-side ads, which could pose a problem to ad blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 months ago (5 children)

how i wish there was a good alternative for youtube

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago

Support candidates who want to limit the ability for large tech companies to acquire their competitors. Maybe even those that wish to see their acquisitions rolled back. Maybe even those that wish to see them broken up.

[–] elbarto777 12 points 6 months ago (3 children)

P-Peertube?

[–] roofuskit 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Not a great alternative. The second it becomes actually successful it will collapse.

[–] elbarto777 3 points 6 months ago

Shucks.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

peertube would be great, if there were more content creators. out of 330 or something channels that i follow on youtube, 4 are on peertube.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

4 out of 330 is quite a lot. Are they tech youtubers or something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

yeah, linux-oriented youtubers

[–] marx2k 2 points 6 months ago

I've tried it. Every server i choose is either slow af, has no videos or the videos just stay at 00:00.

Not a great experience.

[–] QuadratureSurfer 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Grayjay has been useful for that. I still follow people on YouTube, but if they setup a channel anywhere else I can switch my feed to draw from those sources instead.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Oh cool! Is there any non-mobile app/service that does something similar?

[–] QuadratureSurfer 1 points 6 months ago

The source code for GrayJay is available if you're concerned or want to work on a non-mobile app/service yourself, but otherwise I don't know of anything that combines the services like that.

https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Piped. It uses SponsorBlock to also skip ads by the creator in the video, I am very sure they will update it to remove ads injected by YouTube as well. It is also very privacy-friendly.