Hi all,
I use ublock origin in medium blocking mode which blocks a lot of urls by default, google / youtube included. For the longest time I have to unblock, google.com, googlestatic.com, youtube.com (and usually some more) every time I want to watch an embedded video.
I don’t use the youtube website in general, I use freetube for all my youtube watching. Libredirect even opens direct youtube links in freetube but it can’t handle embedded videos (at least not in a way without unblocking the urls before).
The best solution would be a userscript or extension that replaces all embedded youtube videos with links I can click to open them in freetube. I was surprised I couldn’t find something like this. Does anybody know about a solution?
*EDIT: I found a a way to make embedded youtube videos clickable: https://xcancel.com/gorhill/status/1377613397710229506#m
This is straight from the ublock origin developers. Sadly even in this case you have to globally unblock youtube.com and google.com which is a no go for me.
Cheers
Can’t you set Libredirect to embed videos?
Not directly. If I select embedded in libredirect it uses invidious and for that to work I have to unblock the urls as well.
You can set libredirect to use FreeTube.
That’s what I am doing but it doesn’t work for EMBEDDED, which is the point of this post.
What browser are you using and can you please post a site with embedding that does not work for you.
I have Librewolf, Ublock set to medium mode, libredirect Redirect Type set to both, Embed Frontend set to Invidious but with no instance selected.
Most sites with embedded youtube have ‘Watch on Youtube’ bottom left and you can just right click and select Redirect in librediract. Some don’t have that but most allow right click where you can select the url that can be pasted into FreeTube.
Hey, thanks for the reply.
I have exactly the same setup as you, I also use librewolf and all sites that have embedded youtube (or any embedded video) don’t work.
This one for example: https://www.androidauthority.com/hands-on-one-ui-7-home-up-3522949/
With medium mode enabled I just have a white space in the middle of the article. When I manually allow “youtube.com” and “google.com” the video loads.
Do you get a different behavior?
doesn’t work I think. block embedded stuff and make it so that when you click on the placeholder, it opens FreeTube
That’s what I want to do and was my initial question. How do I do that with medium mode enabled?