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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Stopped working for me for some reason. Had to switch to Firefox mobile site

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Remove it and use the patch manager to reinstall, make sure to use the recommended APK. It just requires manually updating sometimes, basically.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It's an assymetric cat-and-mouse game.

YouTube does it for revenue and has to spend money to enhance their anti-adblock system, while there is an army of volunteers online who will gladly defeat these enhancements for free with an impact on a massive scale.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But YouTube has A LOT of money

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The Internet has A LOT of volunteers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I was wondering because I have yet to see an adblock warning and I use YouTube daily.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm assuming this will escalate to some insanely locked down DRM scheme. Guess I'll enjoy uBlock, ReVanced and yt-dlp while I can

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well Google has recently been forcing through its awful Web Environment Integrity proposal so...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

they cancelled that

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

installing better adblockers

or just updating uBlock lol. not sure what YouTubes team was expecting here

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

For every tech company with an r&d team fighting this stuff, there's a plethora of programming wizards whose sole purpose in life is to defeat them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or worse, they are just using third party clients.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Are there any yt 3rd party that support chromecasting?

That is the only thing keeping me from switching away from the official app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Combine that with the 83% price increase in Australia!

YouTube can eat shit, they're screwing over even those of us willing to pay, Smarttube here I come!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As plenty of other people have already said, if YouTube Premium went up by a pittance every month (boiling frog price increases) I would probably keep subscribing. The fact that they A) clamped down on AdBlockers and B) increased Premium rates is a major disappointment.

Add to this that Patreon are introducing invasive User Agreements and it is getting more difficult to support Independent content creators.

Platforms like Curiosity Stream are looking more and more appealing to those of us who want interesting content and don’t mind parting with a reasonable amount of cash to support creators.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I wouldn't give Google $32.99/m for YouTube, no matter how slowly they increased the price, that's utterly ridiculous.

I've used Curiosity Stream and Nebula before, would happily go back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to watch the Thursday night football recap yesterday and accidentally opened YouTube instead of smarttube. I was shocked. I watched a minute of ads to start and one minute in I had another minute of ads. YouTube was basically unwatchable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I honestly don't know how people can tolerate it.