For quite some time now I’ve had the issue that the video simply refuses to stop playing requiring me to refresh the page. Might be an issue with one of the add-ons too though.
Guys does this affect invidious instance? I recently moved to Tubular and I’m loving it. I just want to make sure it lasts long.
For a while, I’ve had problems with a patched yt app. Been going on for probably months at this point, but even with the latest ReVanced patches I still end up with, if lucky, video plays for 10 seconds before infinite loading. Makes me have to use the PipePipe (NewPipe fork) app more than I want, but at least I get ad free videos.
I’d use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.
I’d use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.
I’m not interested in commenting, but I do want to keep track of my history (across multiple devices). I wish there were a privacy-respecting solution that could do that.
By Louis Rossman’s startup “Futo”. I have a lot of respect for that dude from his right-to-repair activism, but despite that it’s just a good privacy-respecting video app and worth paying for, IMO.
This is what I do anyways because I am too impatient to watch through 15 minutes of blah blah to reach the end and hear, “in my next video I’ll actually show you how to dobthe thing that you came here to see.”
Give me a decent web page with searchable text and a few pictures (if needed) and I’ll be happy.
I was searching on YouTube for seat sizes for a long haul flight and can try to compare different airlines seats. There was so much annoying content that I went to Bing to search (Google is bad now).
That was also pretty bad. I ended up using chatGPT and gave me the answer in 1 minute.
But are you sure that answer wasn’t a hallucination?
When ChatGPT searches the web, it provides sources.
Ah, you used bing copilot to search. OK.
I used the actual ChatGPT. I don’t really like the copilot answers.
I run uOrigin, flashblock, JS disabled, No Overlays, and DDG’s privacy ad on’s and I have no problems with YT
Did you just mention JS disabled on Youtube?
Not all of my Ad On’s are for YT, but yes I run a JS blocker and also block video’s and sound on all sites except YT
I’m surprised Google didn’t try to push some sort of compiled javascript, to avoid exmination, till now.
Lgeblock works great
I’m surprised Google didn’t try to push some sort of compiled javascript, to avoid exmination, till now.
Web assembly ? It’s not driven only by Google, but I think they have been involved.
Blocking adblockers apparently doesn’t work well enough so google resorts to various forms of gaslighting (delayed video playback, api randomly returning wrong video, and now skipping video straight to the end).
I thought I was going insane with the wrong video thing. I have premium but also an ad blocker because the entire internet is a cancerous cesspit without one, so I wonder if I get hit with anti ad blocking measures or I was just tripping?
Had the random API one the other day. Was nuts. Also the 5 second delay for Firefox too when it was a thing.
I get that 5sec delay for the official YouTube app weirdly enough
You can download YouTube videos via yt-dlp and add them to a jellyfin server. If you’d want to watch them without ads and off of Google.
Yeah but I don’t really want to keep the videos. Need one of these alternative sites to hurry up and take off
I’ve been looking into tube archivist actually. Want to get it set up soon and try it out.
Auto downloads, direct in Jellydin, rules set up to delete them afterwards
I’d imagine there would be a way to automatically delete the file if you’ve watched a certain percentage and it’s been a certain amount of time.
IDK, I’m not a programmer.
I can recommend FreeTube, which is a standalone privacy friendly alternative that gets their videos directly from Google. While also blocking any ads, sponsorships and tracking.
An privacy alternative to Google would be wonderful, but in the meantime we can do it ourselves.
Libredirect and (self-hosted 😉) invidious is the way
Yep, they suddenly started doing that early this morning after several hours of playing videos just fine.
Firefox with uBO, haven’t seen an add or ran into any issues in ages, both windows and linux.
Sometimes I need to refresh the page for the video to play but otherwise no issues, ff+ubo ftw
Exactly, this! uBlock Origins will block upwards of thousands of ads/trackers/whatever from YouTube. After it hits about 50k+, it’ll start to act strangely. At that point I just refresh the video and it all goes away. I think this happens when YouTube changes something cached in the browser, which was originally not blocked by uBO, even when uBO might have been updated to block the new stuff. I have uBO on auto-update for this reason. Whenever I notice shit not working, F5 FTW!
Shhhhhhhh…don’t let the mainstream know…once EVERYBODY is doing it, they’ll fix it.
Wait. This is Lemmy. Pretty sure there’s like 8 people here…
Exactly 8 upvotes to your comment… Let’s leave it that way.
He’s at 39 now… Which of you hasn’t voted with your 5th account yet??
Edit: oh nm it was me. There was only a 12.5% chance it would be me but lady luck didn’t smile on me.
And Arch, BTW.
I’ve been having this.
My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses. Thats assuming the page loads at all, which may take a few refreshes…and its not an internet/connection related issue.
happening with Firefox with ublock origin.
My videos are also randomly going from 4k to 360p, and having long hitches/pauses
I’m seeing this as well. Except I’m not using an adblocker on youtube, and I am paying for youtube premium…
I don’t think it’s entirely caused by youtube fighting adblockers. I think it’s more likely just a regular, boring, old fashioned fuck-up.
Haha that reminds me of a period of my life where I realized it was possible for game devs to detect piracy but instead of making the game say, “not legit copy, cannot play”, it would be more subtle and make itself unstable and eventually crash.
I had a pirated copy of RCT3 that would crash regularly after a few hours. Thought maybe that’s what was going on, plus it was a good game and worth my money anyways, so I bought a legit copy and installed that.
A few hours into playing, it crashed again.
Oh well, other than the crashing it was still a good game so I don’t regret buying it. And I think they sorted it out because my more recent plays didn’t see any crashes. I even bought it again on Steam since I’m not entirely sure where the disc is and don’t have a drive to read it anyways.
I am paying for youtube premium…
Oof.
I have my reasons. You may not agree, but you also don’t live in my house.
ive had it for over a week, though. Think it’d be fixed by then if it was a fuck up
Think it’d be fixed by then if it was a fuck up
Who knows. If it’s not impacting a signifigant percentage of viewers enough for them to complain it may not be a high priority yet.
Didnt noticed it with smarttube https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ or https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular ;)
