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ezconnect on June 6, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Self-hosting your own media considered harmful acc...

Mine is now being limited to 3 videos and a warning we will block you next time. They also removed the wide view button. I just copy the link and watch it on Firefox nightly not logged in to youtube with adblock and youtube does not complain. A bit of a hassle but I can still watch.

reddalo on June 6, 2025 | [–]

Are you using uBlock Origin on Firefox?

BlueTemplar on June 6, 2025 | [–]

You don't have videos stop playing after exactly 1 minute ?

Bender on June 6, 2025 | [–]

I had that for a while but it turned out to be due to having both uBlock and NoScript on that machine. Now it's good for me.

BlueTemplar on June 11, 2025 | | [–]

For me it was uMatrix, which seems to be, sadly, abandoned these days...

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