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I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it’s already working again.
Blessings to Gorhill
don’t forget the list maintainers
Ads aside, what’s been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don’t have Premium, but I’m fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would’ve been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.
Removed by mod
I’m guessing they’re going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.
Removed by mod
From everything I’ve read, it seems they didn’t actually reduce quality and it’s just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.
All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something
Self-Hosting is the only option right now.
Don’t forget Smarttube
FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn’t have support for higher resolutions.
I’ve been watching 4k on it lately
PipePipe in case NewPipe can’t load the video because it requires sign in
Well, down the list we go…
There is no option to sign in on NewPipe. NewPipe works perfectly for me for years now. I even use the Sponsorblock Fork to skip the sponsored segments from the Video Creators
We’re friends?
👉👈
If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.
So does brave
Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.
But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off
YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it’s the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.
I’d probably be paying for YouTube, if it were run by a normal media company instead of the world’s largest spy network and personal data broker. There’s no way in hell I’m giving them my credit card information.
Yeah I don’t really care about value when it comes to giving money to the guys who work with the NSA and CIA to find ways to more thoroughly spy on every user 24/7, and turned every search into “You asked for x, here’s a dozen pages of what the State Department thinks you should have searched for instead”
Not to mention their genocide profiteering: https://www.mintpressnews.com/project-nimbus-billion-google-amazon-partners-israel/280087/
It’s not even about the money, it’s literally about the credit card information, and the massive amount of data linked to it.
Do they not already know who you are and what you purchase anyway? I’m wondering how much of a difference it makes.
I used to pay for it, for the same reasons. They stopped taking my money, i don’t know why, and I noticed zero change in the quality of the service.
I’m paying for other google services, so I don’t know why youtube specifically stopped. Oh well.
Can anyone tell me why my “purge cache” button is missing? I thought i was crazy
It’s gone because people were using it irresponsibly.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/commit/bd7ce41224
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBlock-issues/discussions/2958
