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YouTube videos are skipping to the end for users with adblockers (9to5google.com)

submitted 6 months ago by Xatolos@reddthat.com to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] pbsds@lemmy.ml 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Libredirect and (self-hosted 😉) invidious is the way

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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 7 points 6 months ago

Yep, they suddenly started doing that early this morning after several hours of playing videos just fine.

[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For a while, I've had problems with a patched yt app. Been going on for probably months at this point, but even with the latest ReVanced patches I still end up with, if lucky, video plays for 10 seconds before infinite loading. Makes me have to use the PipePipe (NewPipe fork) app more than I want, but at least I get ad free videos.

I'd use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I’d use a privacy respecting frontend, but sometimes I like to comment and I have yet to find one that allows me to login and comment on videos.

I'm not interested in commenting, but I do want to keep track of my history (across multiple devices). I wish there were a privacy-respecting solution that could do that.

[–] voracitude@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

https://grayjay.app/

By Louis Rossman's startup "Futo". I have a lot of respect for that dude from his right-to-repair activism, but despite that it's just a good privacy-respecting video app and worth paying for, IMO.

[–] GreatDong3000@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

This is happening to me, on a minority of videos I click on, sometimes the video will start at random places midway through and even close to the end. Most times it doesn't happen tho (I am aware the videos start playing on the home/search page now, this isn't it).

I am using youtube premium tho, no adblock just their official app with premium on my phone. This problem started like one or two weeks ago max.

[–] Siegfried@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Jokes on them, i stopped watching youtube videos years ago

[–] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I'm surprised Google didn't try to push some sort of compiled javascript, to avoid examination, till now.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

I'm not quite understanding what the benefit is to forcing skips to the end of the video. Having to click to the beginning of the video takes a fraction of a second which is still a better user experience than sitting through a 15 to 30 second ad.

[–] graeghos_714@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I run uOrigin, flashblock, JS disabled, No Overlays, and DDG's privacy ad on's and I have no problems with YT

[–] cy_narrator@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Did you just mention JS disabled on Youtube?

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