Technology @lemmy.world 0nekoneko7 @lemmy.world 7 mo. ago

YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking

The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.

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Is "creators" Youtube's version of "think on the children"?
Get off of Chrome

Get off of YouTube

Get off of gmail

Get off of Google

Theres a whole big internet out there. You don't have to limit yourself to one single company.
But Youtube already take more than half of what creator should earn.
NewPipe works by fetching the required data from the official API (e.g. PeerTube) of the service you're using. If the official API is restricted (e.g. YouTube) for our purposes, or is proprietary, the app parses the website or uses an internal API instead. This means that you don't need an account on any service to use NewPipe.

So NewPipe doesn't use yt API and it never accepted its terms, so NewPipe is safe (from my understanding)
they still havent cracked down on firefox + ublock
They're not doing a very good job
The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads

Most 3rd party apps dont disable it. They just dont implement it
YouTube already denies many creators of their due rewards from viewership over trivial things like saying the word "hell" in a video. it's obviously something more considering it's Google we're talking about.
"Finally"?
I knew it was only a matter of time before alternative YouTube clients started getting banned. You can't "stick it to Google" while still relying on their servers to host the videos. We need to support Lemmy-like services that are distributed and host their own content and communities for video.
Honestly, I pay for YouTube Premium but I still use Revanced and NewPipe for the extra features. Why can't they just leave me alone?
Finally?
even though this may be inconvenient, it will likely help migrating good content to less shitty platforms/companies in the long run.
Am I weird? I don't mean ads, I have no problem with them.
Just make me use an open source client.
Good thing Firefox for Android allows plug-ins now. That's been my go-to mobile YouTube viewer ever since. It's almost as good as my desktop experience.

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