Love libretube but it just wouldn't play videos consistently. Ended up moving to grayjay

You could put the subtitles for videos in languages you don't speak. What was much more annoying to me was the automatic audio translation (it's still available, but it seems YouTube doesn't select it automatically when you watch a video in another language).

I used enhancer but it seems the dev has stopped updating it for Firefox and only updating it for chrome.

Moved to Tweaks for YouTube and am quite happy with it so far; seems to also have more options.

Tweaks for YouTube – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Tweaks for YouTube for Firefox. Seek, navigate chapters, control volume, speed, and more with mouse and keyboard shortcuts. Adjust player controls, progress bar, subtitles, process audio, show playlist duration, take video snapshot, set initial volume, speed, resolution, and more.

(addons.mozilla.org)

When ads get in the way I simply don't watch the videos. It's not like anybody ever really needs to watch any particular video.

Yall I got yt premium as a perk from my carrier and tried it out, it’s fucking AWFUL. Mostly the yt app. I get better speeds, quality and less interruptions just using brave

They do get they're not dealing with a generation used to ad breaks any more, right?

How about blocking this nonsense on Xbox? Need a pi hole yes?

I don't think a DNS hole is going to save you from ads served internally by YouTube.

I am in no way defending YouTube here, but how did it act anticompetitively?

Hosting and storage costs, few can afford to be an alternative to an absolutely gigantic video storage platform that costs obscene money to maintain.

And suppression of comments, for all sorts of reasons. Words and phrases will constantly flag AI autoremoval.

Whenever that happens, the heroes in the ublock team does push a new fix in a few hours.

Will check it out thanks!

@ChaoticEntropy @atlien51

you found your way to lemmy but you don't know about https://peertube.tv/

I think this one's a winner for me, thanks!

I will continue to download all my videos to avoid ads. When they break the tools in such a way that this is no longer possible, I will stop watching videos from YouTube and seek entertainment elsewhere.

It might, if it just blocks YouTube

Sure, a service that manages an infinitely smaller amount of content and complexity. It is a situational tool, hardly a YouTube killer... the banner presented on the homepage professes that it's expensive to run and please donate.