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youtube getting more agressive blocking users after 3 videos (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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youtube getting more aggressive.. i've got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

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[–] 28 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can put up with that... Or you could just switch to a Piped instance and be done with it all.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Piped is great, the content goes through a proxy so there's no interaction with YouTube servers and your account and subscriptions are also isolated.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    So wait how does that work? Are you still using your YouTube account on Piped or is it something else?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago*

    You can of course export your yt subscriptions as a CSV file and import them into Piped, and you can also use a difference instance to host your account/data as the one you're using to stream the content. Did I mention built-in sponsorblock support and native apps like LibreTube?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    How is that "legal" though? Will it not be harassed by Google at some point to turn it down?

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    It's not illegal, but maybe against YT terms of service. I've seen reports that google is starting to IP ban piped instances.

    I'm taking it with a grain of salt anyway, as I haven't read any first hand accounts. And it would be interesting to see if google really is banning IPs, even ones in aws/azure/linode/gcp(lol)/etc IP blocks.

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