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[–] kamen@lemmy.world 8 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] qaz@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago

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.

[–] hmmm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

Now It's gone

[–] teije9@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 9 hours ago

I've never even seen that before with unlock on firefox

[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

If you’re on iOS or use Safari on macOS Wipr will get rid of YouTube ads.

[–] trouble@lemm.ee 0 points 10 hours ago (2 children)
[–] dev_null@lemmy.ml 6 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

But Brave is malware, so not a great trade-off

[–] trouble@lemm.ee 2 points 14 minutes ago
[–] const_void@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah but Brave has creepy crypto stuff baked in. Safari doesn’t have a bunch of junk that needs to be disabled.

[–] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 8 points 15 hours ago

I was so happy to find this post, and was saddened again to see that I didn't have this button available when I needed it hahahaha

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 77 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Friends don't let friends deal with YouTube's website.
NewPipe
FreeTube

[–] areyouevenreal@lemm.ee 1 points 10 hours ago

FreeTube breaks regularly and doesn't have support for higher resolutions.

[–] UltraMagnus0001@lemmy.world 2 points 12 hours ago

Don't forget Smarttube

[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] affiliate@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago

we’re all friends here

[–] comfy@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Also relevant:

  • alternate frontends (e.g. Invidious and Piped)
  • yt-dlp🔗 (youtube downloader, can also be used to stream videos into players like mpv)
[–] KneeTitts@lemmy.world 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

All the piped instances appear to be down, unless Im missing something

[–] sag@lemm.ee 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

Self-Hosting is the only option right now.

[–] N00b22@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

PipePipe in case NewPipe can't load the video because it requires sign in

[–] Chev@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

Well, down the list we go...

[–] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 162 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

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

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 day ago

don't forget the list maintainers

[–] jkozaka@lemm.ee 63 points 1 day ago

It was fixed in mere minutes

[–] Epzillon@lemmy.ml 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Can anyone tell me why my "purge cache" button is missing? I thought i was crazy

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