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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Piped.video and LibreTube never work for me, very unreliable.
Piped.video is the official instance, but there’s more
piped.adminforge.de and piped.smnz.de have relatively high uptime and quick fixes in my experience.
Thanks for the hint, much better
In LibreTube, you can go to
I only ever had issues with the piped proxy, not with the app itself.
for piped i just use an other host from that list and it works totaly fine https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances