@WillyECoyote69 Try this Invidious youtube filter
:
☑️ Working / tested today:
🔗 https://pol1.iv.ggtyler.dev/search?q=yIZmUINSvQ4
or your video link here:
@WillyECoyote69 And more links to the same advert-free here
https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=yIZmUINSvQ4
(shows more just in case that one is overwhelmed by watchers)
@WillyECoyote69
RE: Invidious / YouTube
Yes it can busy often so I find one to stick with after hopping a few
1/ using this link to see:
https://redirect.invidious.io
2/ Try Sepia Search:
https://sepiasearch.org/
YouTube is trying to block tools that are cleaning away adverts and stripping the tracking (imagine all the links from Fediversethat are directly youtube.com! tracking them)...
But I have 2 honest solutions:
➡️ A) Not watch as much ✔️
AND use that time for other useful things ✔️✔️
Point A explained more:
We had it too good with YouTube and it became another TV... so while its good I have all I need.
And this ties perfectly with making contact people instead for the real change eventually on Fediverse (not just users migrated from Twitter etc), so by not watching videos I can watch profiles instead as "the social project" and put it into practice DAILY which I feel people don't do / get distracted from giving each other real attention and instead watch Hollywood or other videos / politics)
➡️ b) I use savefrom.net/ to download video instead ☑️
Point B explained more:
Means I have to wait and not endlessly watch but when I'm sure I download it instead of stream and watch it 10 times instead of moving on quickly.
I make notes or smaller clips from videos like a mini project too getting the best out of each download like it's gold and I respect it took energy to get to me.
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SUMMARY
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➡️ 1/ Overall I pick and choose more often.
Real contact encouraged with people
➡️ 2/ I accept that in the end the other service providers / companies providing the service / YouTube / websites will always win or put more cleverness leverage to make it less worth my while
But God knows I have enough videos on my hard disk so I need less YouTube!! ✔️✔️
And probably should start creating my own stuff ALSO!
If you can reduce Google YouTube usage then more power to you...
Some people have PeerTube so can work we slowly use that and Sepia Search to search videos...