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Linus Tech Tips uploaded a video showing how to block ads on Youtube. Which was removed by Youtube for community guidelines violations.
(sh.itjust.works)
https://files.catbox.moe/a6111d.png / https://nitter.poast.org/LinusTech/status/1825956050685800834
If you go the video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsjHMzGl-VY. You will see it's gone. So Youtube being Youtube.
Here's a Odysee mirror of the video, https://odysee.com/@jopec:7/linus-tech-tips-degoogle-your-life-part-2-adfree-youtube:0.
Invidious or viewtube are even better.
I run a local instance of invidious and it is…chefs kiss
A local instance can still link your IP to other Google activities, so it's not really private.
It's better to run it in a datacenter and use your instance with a few friends afaik.
You mean my VPNs IP
Interesting setup but that works too.
are the instances always flaky and laggy just for me?
YT has been combating them, so they have some trouble lately. Others might be having trouble with the increasing amount of people leaving the Google regime.
Yewtu.be seems to be always strong (although you can't import your subs there sadly)
the ones i tried were already bad before the crackdown, and turned unusable for me after. includes yewtube.
I wonder if those are less likely to be blocked on networks.
I'm sure all the public instances are on common blocklists.