youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • Norgur@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    You can put up with that… Or you could just switch to a Piped instance and be done with it all.

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      1 year ago

      Piped is great, the content goes through a proxy so there’s no interaction with YouTube servers and your account and subscriptions are also isolated.

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        1 year ago

        So wait how does that work? Are you still using your YouTube account on Piped or is it something else?

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          1 year ago

          You can of course export your yt subscriptions as a CSV file and import them into Piped, and you can also use a difference instance to host your account/data as the one you’re using to stream the content. Did I mention built-in sponsorblock support and native apps like LibreTube?

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        1 year ago

        It’s not illegal, but maybe against YT terms of service. I’ve seen reports that google is starting to IP ban piped instances.

        I’m taking it with a grain of salt anyway, as I haven’t read any first hand accounts. And it would be interesting to see if google really is banning IPs, even ones in aws/azure/linode/gcp(lol)/etc IP blocks.