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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

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[–] filister@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It is also possible to install libredirect if you are using Firefox Nightly on Android https://mike.sg/2022/07/10/how-to-use-libredirect-on-android/. You can disable the YouTube app and this would force your device to open the YouTube links in your default browser.

[–] clanginator@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you're on Android why not just use revanced or Newpipe? Both are excellent and I haven't had issues with revanced since this change.

[–] filister@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am using Newpipe, but libredirect can redirect more websites, not only YouTube.

[–] clanginator@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[–] xnileap@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Could also use Fennec or Mull on f-droid instead of Firefox Nightly with less telemetry from Google and other vendors