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
Do any modern websites run with no script? I figured with most websites based in JS frameworks like react and Vue, hardly anything would work with noscript
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I use noscript don’t have this problem.
well duh, the detection uses JavaScript.
I don’t get it you guys are all about privacy and this or adblockers but you still willingly allow Javascript?
please read up on threat models. If you need that amount of privacy/security that’s fine, but many don’t.
Because LITERALLY EVERY WEBSITE THAT HAS A WORKING BUTTON THAT UPDATES ITSELF requires JavaScript.
Everyone should use script blockers. Flat out only way to reliably block the boatloads of malicious scripts that litters the internet.
Do any modern websites run with no script? I figured with most websites based in JS frameworks like react and Vue, hardly anything would work with noscript
You enable the minimum necesary for the website to do what you need.
Good idea. I will soon as well.