YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps like ReVanced
YouTube goes for the jugular as it begins cracking down on third-party apps
This article is pretty much an ad for Youtube Premium
But they're just sharing the fact Youtube Premium™ offers a lot of people great benefits, like background play, and music!
And a larger percentage of post operating revenue!
Background play is bloody annoying if you don't use YT for music. I prefer videos to stop when I switch apps, then resume when I switch back. Now they keep playing.
And I'm starting to get recommendations of music that I can't remove or tell it I'm not interested in.
I remember when YouTube had background playback for free. An update broke it, then it was put behind a paywall.
Came here to say this
Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.
Guess i'll download all of my medias and put them on a hard drive
thing is, i'd proboably have forked over the money for YouTube Premium by now if my only issue with the YouTube app was ads. its not. the app is genuinely unusable for me if I don't apply the tweaks I need, especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.
rather than allow users to make these tweaks, google would go on a witch hunt for these apps because it would be unprofitable to allow users to avoid the brainrot that is Shorts, or the many another "features" they've bogged the app down with.
especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.
Fucking hell man, it's so annoying! Best is when you open the app and it automatically starts on the shorts tab blasting some insufferable video.
Does the app let you change the playback speed to something rational like 0.9x, 1.1x, 1.2x, 1.3x? I've almost never found a video where 1.25x was the optimal listening speed. YT's default playback speeds are shit for accessibility.
unfortunately no, but you could implement it as a ReVanced patch if you really wanted this functionality.
edit: wait nvm its in the revanced settings, you can set whatever custom playback speeds you want to appear in the menu
Oh, interesting. I can't stand how slow videos are, so I always turn them up to 1.5 or 1.75x. Hell, the only time I ever use the default speed is for music because obviously that does not work.
when newpipe stops working I'll stop using YouTube 😂 maybe my life will be better, who knows
There was a different article earlier today and they were speaking about stuff like ReVanced and API access. Since new pipe has not agreed to the APIs terms and services, that means they should be safe
"Finally"? Barf.
Any indications that NewPipe or SmartTube will stop working?
Maybe, the ideia is to force everyone to use the site/app, like Twitter an Reddit did.
https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/announcement/newpipe-net-dmca-google-search/
The day Newpipe and all Inviduous instances die is the day I never use YouTube again.
You can do that?
If only there weren't trying to make YouTube less usable. Currently if I listen to podcasts on YT and take a break, in a few hours it can completely forget that I was watching it, it'll be gone from my watch history. This is so frustrating with 2-3 hours long videos.
I'm currently using revanced to browse YouTube on my phone. No ads and it automatically skips over promotional parts in videos.
Grayjay still works? YT-DLP still works? I sleep.
Youtube alternatives like peertube need to get their act together and think about how to remunerate content creators. Ain't nobody moving from youtube to peertube that wants to pay their bills with content creation. Nobody.
Why should PeerTube bother with that though? We all know YouTubers won't switch to it, infact, YouTubers will not use another platform ever.
They could just upload their videos to multiple places, but they don't. I think it's clear that the vast majority doesn't actually care about it. So what is the point of trying to appeal to them? They may as well priroritize their existing userbase, who are fedi hobbyists.
Ask yourself why they won't and take economical realities into account.
Just no, please no, for the love of god no ? that way inevitability leads to enshitification. YT itself is a giant shitshow from decades past
What do you want content creators to live on?
Piped?
I've been having issue with it the last couple days, but I also tend to just have issue with it overall lol
I swear pretty soon they'll do DRMs at some point.
Go use NewPipe! Its Foss!
If ReVanced fall anyway there still exist alternative frontends like NewPipe.
Uh huh
The simple fact is that YouTube just isn't good enough to pay the amount of money for that Google wants for it. Accordingly, if other ways to use it besides premium aren't available, I'll stop using it and recover some time in my day.
