Youtube has added a new “feature” that blocks users with adblockers from viewing videos. How do I get around this while still blocking ads? I currently use uBlock Origin on firefox.

  • nymnympseudonym@piefed.social
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    10 hours ago

    Google has been directly attacking Invidious nodes for about 2 years now. As soon as they figure out a node, it gets IP-banned. All the working instances use IPv6 with huge address blocks or crazy IPv4 address rotation, plus cycling login credentials, …

    Fuck YouTube. The only real solution is PeerTube.

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      8 hours ago

      I’ve never really figured out Peeetube tbh. It never finds me the type of content I am looking for, usually only instance local content.

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        It’s largely because there is very low incentive to create videos for peertube: smaller user base and less revenue options. So you find less videos because there are less.