• Lord Wiggle@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      I’m leeching premium from a friend so no ads on pc, but because I’m getting sick and tired of all the shorts shit being pushed onto me (even play automatically when I would open the YouTube app) I’m using Grayjay on my phone instead of the official YouTube app. Never ads and it even has sponsor block. Plus you can follow creators instead of channels, across platforms. And downloading a video means you can actually watch it without a connection too. It has more perks then someone paying for premium has. Piracy pais off.

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        Shorts are the bane of my ADHD ass

        I’m going to have to look into Greyjay for sure just for the no shorts part

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          Yeah I hear ya, same here. Fuck shorts.

          Grayjay is from Louis Rossmann, one of the biggest advocates for right to repair. It costs 10 dollars, one time payment, but if you don’t pay it also works. It’s open source. If you have an issue and mail then, they actually respond (fast) to try to solve the issue, or make changes to the app to make it better. It’s really great what they do. And YouTube hates him.

          https://grayjay.app/

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      Also firefox + ublock, but for me, it literally makes YouTube unusable. As in videos just flat out will not play in any way. I just get an endlessly loading spinner for the video

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        I have had that happen a few on desktop if I left a video paused overnight, but refreshing the page sorted it out right away.

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        It sometimes happens for me as well

        Usually I can get to the vid if I go to the channel and try again. Or trying again a little while later.

        It’s fuckin annoying when it trips

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        5 months ago

        Try an extension to spoof your browser agent.

        I set mine to spoof Chrome and my Firefox + ublock stopped having any issues with YouTube.

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        I have this problem or it will play for like 3 seconds and then buffer for a bit, play 3 seconds, buffer, repeat for infinity. No matter what I do I have one of these issues with Firefox and any adblocker and it’s super annoying.

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        5 months ago

        Do you have uBlock Origin, or one of the fake adblockers that try to ride on its name?

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      Same, that combination never causes me any problems (I use uMatrix too which is always causing problems, but I get to decide which domains to allow cookies, scripts, and XHR requests from/to).