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YouTube detects and blocking Brave browser
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- janandonly 2y agoBrave brazenly makes adverts in which they claim to skip YT adds. They would at some point grow big enough for YT to become a problem.
- ajsnigrutin 2y agohttps://freetubeapp.io/ https://freetubeapp.io/ ^ great alternative to youtube in a browser
- rolph 2y agoVLC > media > open network stream > paste video link > convert > enjoy
- incognito124 2y agoThis is good for one-off video watching type of things but it introduces a lot of friction
- rolph 2y agoyeah its not a 1click, but less intrusion, no buffering unless your device is prehistoric, if its a keeper, you can snip off kruft, and do all the neat VLC, and Handbrake things.
- znpy 2y agothank you SO much!
- pygar 2y agoI don't think they are blocking based on browser. They are probably on another push. I'm getting "Ad blockers violate YouTube's Terms of Service" on lastest Firefox and uBO. I'm in Australia.
- neuralRiot 2y agoUsing duckduckgo video search opens the video on the search results page, playing there plays without ads, I get the “sign in to confirm you’re not a bot” message sometimes though.
- creer 2y agoYoutube also blocks all but the crudest resolution on firefox.
- peutetre 2y agoI see plenty of 4K video on YouTube in Firefox.
- creer 2y agoAha. There's a bunch of config switches that might need tweaking. "webm" did it for me. Thanks! https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1078015 https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1078015 https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13u2diq/youtube_video_quality_drops_to_auto_360p_every/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/13u2diq/youtube_vi...
- peutetre 2y agoI didn't need to tweak any config switches. I think you might be overtuning your browser. Probably best to reset to defaults and go from there.
- creer 2y agoI doubt that I actively disabled webm. But yeah, it's been years of switching this or that, firefox adding or removing this or that, etc. That does add up. One of these pages seems to imply that "webm" was turned off when it first came out in firefox. And until not so long ago, Google didn't send everything in webm.