I have a private piped instance running in oracle cloud free, works nicely for me.
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I wonder if this would affect things like Newpipe (android YouTube client replacement with no ads) or even just playing streams via MPV. I assume that stuff is relatively safe since it's grabbing the actual video streams, but I'm sure there is still a way they could block them.
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Whats the percentage of YT users who use Adblock tools? i think it's a tiny number, mainly the power users.
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Yeah please do, I will just stop using YouTube and that would be a good thing.
First trying to kill off invidious, and then this? What a world.
So PeerTube is seeing uptake soon :D ?
I watch youtube, I mean, who doesn't? But there is nothing on there, no creater, no content, that would stop me from going cold turkey with the site if they are actually able to pull it off.
Honestly, I've always been surprised as to why YouTube even tolerates adblockers. It's basically a no-brainer for them to bake ads into the stream and disable skipping
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