PSA To people watching YouTube with AdBlockers - lemm.ee

You might have noticed that even on Firefox (depending on your lists) YouTube may detect uBlock Origin on Firefox now [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6089078] There’s already a workaround (found, again, here [https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6089078]), but I figured I would use this opportunity to tell people that projects like Piped [**https://github.com/teampiped/piped] and Invidious [https://invidious.io/] 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 [https://libredirect.github.io/] 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