YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker

wintercoast

@astero said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:

AdGuard is backed by Russians, developed by Russians and hosted by Russians, so no trust in them at all. Building privacy based on AdGuard is like fighting fire with gasoline.

They're actually now based in Cyprus and subject to GDPR. But, FWIW, Yandex Search is also Russian and is, ironically, the least-politically biased search engine.

Anyway, personally, I'll just go what works for me until it doesn't, and then choose the next best solution.

For YouTube, on desktop, FreeTube is a good ad-free alternative - until it stops working. (I'm not sure whether it can deal with Google's proposed server-side ads.)

astero

@wintercoast said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:

For YouTube, on desktop, FreeTube is a good ad-free alternative - until it stops working. (I'm not sure whether it can deal with Google's proposed server-side ads.)

It would be nice to have something like FreeTube built-in into the browser. On the phone I use NewPipe, but for desktop there is no similar alternative. Thanks for the FreeTube suggestion, will try it out.

Catweazle

@astero, since time all YT Front-end have have problems, because can't reproduce a lot of Videos. FreeTube is based on Invidios, the main front-end atacked by Google.
If you search an Video in FreeTube, they are listed, but can't be reproduced (the time in the playline remain in 00:00 --:-- and an X in the middle of the screen.
Because of this I set SMplayer as extern player in FreeTube, it can reproduce almost everything. So in cas of an blocked Video in FreeTube I click on the little square un the lower left corner of the Tumbnail of the Video, with which it open in the SMplayer without problems.
But an inbuild Videoplayer in Vivaldi I don't believe that it is possible at least for YT.
The alternative is to search the Video in Andisearch and watch it there in the search results, sandboxed without ads.

astero

@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:
that player manipulations look difficult, don't wanna go that way.

The alternative is to search the Video in Andisearch and watch it there in the search results, sandboxed without ads.

Andisearch looks like GPT prompt, not like search engine. how do you search video there? Just pasting URL?

Catweazle

@astero, Andi use AI as search assistant, it was the first AI search long before all others. It use an own LLM, it's not made as Chatbot, it's way different from all others.
You can search videos with the artist name, band, author or whatever.

astero

@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:

@astero, Andi use AI as search assistant, it was the first AI search long before all others. It use an own LLM, it's not made as Chatbot, it's way different from all others.
You can search videos with the artist name, band, author or whatever.

funny but works. Never thought of using AI chatbot as a YT client, lol. I didn't try for too long, but didn't see any ads. Are you sure Andi filters out the YT-built-in ads when showing us the videos?

Catweazle

@astero, I use it as default search since it's beginning, when other AI search didn't yet exist. It's way different from all others, as said, above the most accurat one and the most private.

vgy.me

https://andisearch.com/?query=%s

barbudo2005

"YouTube revives its Premium Lite plan, but there is a twist: it has ads"

https://adguard.com/en/blog/youtube-premium-lite-plan-ads.html

DoctorG

@barbudo2005 Sad, that paid services are now polluted with ads. But we can not do anything against such injection in streams.
Perhaps we get no ads if paying 50$ per month . Or we get them regardless how much we pay.
Monopolists can do such ugly things. They are the new Borg of the Internet – Resistance is futile.

Catweazle

@DoctorG, the only site which cn be an alternative to YouTube, respect features and content, also with the possibility to monetize for creators, but without all other Google crap, is Odysee. I think, if YT remains in ts crappy business model, more creators will change to Odysee, until now sadly few.

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Pesala

uBlock Origin is still working on YouTube for me.

𝕏 is an alternate platform, which now allows long-form videos. It seems that content creators currently need a lot of followers and views to begin making money, but top creators seem to be making serious money.

I see no ads (just a regular user), and see no messages about using ad-blockers.

astero

@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:

https://andisearch.com/?query=%s

thanks, this is very helpful. However I still struggling with Andi search parameters.
You are saying "You can search videos with the artist name, band, author or whatever" but that appeared more tricky than you say.
Let's take an example: I am following some content creator on YT, for example Mr Beast, and every day I am opening youtube to watch his latest video. Quite typical scenario, isn't it?
For this particular scenario Andi seems to be useless, unless you know exact video name, which isn't always the case. Most of the people know only the creator/blogger name, not video name he uploads every day. And this is the usage pattern how I use NewPipe, the NP is able to load the creator channel, subscribe me to the channel and I get notifications when the new videos are issued.
Take a look what Andi found me when I entered Mr Best last video

It showed me some bogus, the video dated a year ago.

Catweazle

@astero, try asking mr Beast last video 2024, instead of Mr Best last video

astero

ok, now i did this without a typo and what we see?

another portion of nonsense. Instead of showing me biblical, sci-fi, fantasy or horror interpretations of the word "beast" it assumed (WTF?) that i missed the dot, and suggested me the Australian fast-food chain B.East. Seriously???

@Catweazle said in YouTube Blocking Video for Browser with Ad Blocker:

above the most accurat one and the most private

No offence, but this chatbot is anything else but accurate, I hope at least it is private. Though it's definitely not a practical way of searching YT videos given it cannot find such primitive things and it does such nonsensical errors.

astero

Sorry everybody for offtop, 'cause it doesn't directly related to the thread. So UBlock still the only actual way of blocking ads in Vivaldi? Thru which script manager we can install Ublock in Vivaldi? As I see Chromish way of installation will soon be ceased to be supported as one can see on this warning

GamingSKITZ

You can also use Adblocker to block ads on hulu & disney plus. Idt the vivaldi one does though.