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Google warns users of these apps that their experience may deteriorate soon. They may "experience buffering issues" or see errors such as "the following content is not available on this app" when trying to watch videos.

Similar to Google Search, ads have become insufferable for many users of the service. There are too many of them, they may break the viewing experience, and they may show inappropriate content.

YouTube Premium is expensive. What weights more for some users is that its functionality is severely limited when compared to third-party apps.

The cat and mouse game continues.

For those looking to avoid ads or improve privacy, here are some options for free, open source, privacy-friendly frontends to YouTube without advertisements:

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (4 children)

They'll try, spend allot of money on it and they'll fail. And even if they don't, they won't their money back.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Btw they are not actually failing: just a few weeks ago Invidious was completely broken, but a guy posted a PR to fix that like the day after...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That sounds a lot like failure to me..

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Their goal isn't to completely shut this down, Google is fully aware that that's impossible to achieve. They just want to annoy enough people and make it complicated enough so that the userbase doesn't grow any further.

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