I use Firefox and the uBlock Origin addon as my default browser setup. It works great…except for on youtube. I used to use it happily for youtube with all Ads blocked, but two recent youtube changes made me have to use a different browser and extension, just for youtube.
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Firefox users started noticing degraded performance on youtube vs when they viewed youtube with Chrome.
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uBlock Origin users in Chrome and Firefox appear to be being targeted with an intermittent covert punishment of having any videos above 360p throttled so that they buffer heavily.
So my current approach, just for youtube, is Chrome with Clear Skies ad skipper extension which gets me good performance and no ads.
What is your setup for youtube without ads?
I’m also interested in youtube alternatives, especially for music.
Here’s my no-ads YouTube set
windows, Linux Block ads and sponsored sections, optinal invidious proxy, no YouTube login, offline subscription list
https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/
Android TV, Block ads and sponsored sections, smart tv optimized, youtube login if you want to see your subscriptions
android, Block ads, offline subscription list
I switched to Arch Linux as my operating system a few years ago, and here I use the FreeTube app from the AUR. It’s a third party frontend for YouTube, similar to Nitter for Twitter (X).
And for work (Windows) I watch YouTube via Invidious instances, e.g. https://yewtu.be also a third party frontend for YouTube
I’ve had zero issues watching YouTube on Firefox with ublock origin. Not one warning received,no performance issues.
Ditto in Canada.
Youtube works 👍 on Firefox Windows 11 with Ublock origin for me. I could view 1440p. No major issue. Aside from adblocking, I use Ublock origin to block tracking cookies and remove “accept cookies” banners on sites.
