You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now
There’s already a workaround (found, again, here), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped and Invidious exist, which both allow you to watch YouTube without loading their ads, with improved Privacy and (in the case of Piped) even Geoblocking-Circumvention and SponsorBlock out of the box.
They’re both great tools, and using something like LibRedirect you can even automatically go to Piped or Invidious when clicking/opening a YouTube link (and more).
Both don’t load ads, but unless changed in the settings Individous may still make connections to Google/YouTube to load the video(s) themselves.
Bit of a shameless plug for these projects, but I figured this is a really good time to show these projects as I often see people asking what they are in threads on here
Can I log into my YouTube account with these things? Cause if not then what’s the point
Watching Videos without adds and keeping your data private is the point.
Glad i can help
I want no ads and be able to log in. Idgaf about data at this point. Anything you practically do on the internet is collected in some way shape or form. Even using lemmy sorry to tell ya.
Just get premium then … Sorry to tell ya
me when I loose my downloads — locally saved downloads from YouTube — after 3 days of inactivity
As if I’d pay for YouTube
You’re funny
No, but subscriptions can be imported manually.
The point is to not load tracking tech YouTube ships with as well as staying relatively anonymous.