Watching YouTube in private window still works with an ad block

EvilHaitianEatingYourCat@lemmy.world to You Should Know@lemmy.world – 98 points –

That's a lazy solution without installing Peertube/Piped/Invidious etc,,

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You don't install piped or individious, they are websites you simply navigate too:

https://piped.video

Or you even can install a firefox extension to redirect all youtube links automatically for you. Here is one that has minimal permissions required:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-redirect/

I was talking about self hosting them which obviously requires installation

Oh, well when you spoke of convenience I thought it was less likely you had self-hosting in mind ;)

I just want to make sure people to know how easy it is to avoid youtube with the further prooliferation of their enshittification.

I don't get how those proxies can afford to operate. Video streaming is insanely expensive and their per-user expenses (bearing in mind that the average user never uploads anything) are probably on the same level as YouTube's if they proxy the video stream.