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Comment by JMiao

8 hours ago

is there an equivalent experience for desktop pcs?

Firefox with sponsorblock installed and ublock origin?

  • I haven't been able to watch youtube in the browser for ages. I get like one 10-20s chunk then nothing further. Do you use just the standard block lists?

    • Works well for me on Firefox with uBlock origin without any special lists.

      Personally I use my own fork of FreeTube on desktops, though, falling back to Firefox with uBlock when there are outages.

    • Your experience is strange, I use the official Chrome (not Chromium) with uBlock Lite and everything works perfectly (except the 5s delay at the start).

    • Are you using a VPN? Youtube will be a jerk to those IPs. I need to set my exit node to either Poland or Albania to watch YT. (The latter incidentally is supposed to act as an ad-blocker due to local legislation banning some types of ads, but I have my own ad-blockers so I cannot confirm.)

    • Even on the fastest computer I got, I have to wait 2 whole minutes for the website to finish loading. I think they really hate Firefox.

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Freetube is pretty great, also you can import your newpipe subs. Http://Freetubeapp.io

It's not that well known, but mpv supports playing youtube videos. I think you need yt-dlp installed.