Freetube with sponsor block is a godsend.
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Even problems to watch a lot of Videos in FreeTube, it listed the Videos, but don't reproduce them. Because of this I put SMplayer as extern player, which don't have problems to reproduce almost everything. Other possibility is to search the YT video in Andisearch, which permits to watch it sandboxed without ads in the searc results, or embedded and proxied, if the Video is restricted outside from YT (clicking on the video in this case). Front ends certainly are going worst, the best which stil work fine are LightTube and ViewTube, PokeTube for some Vids. In YT Itself you can watch it still without ads, tracking and/or nags, using these scripts in Violentmonkey or Greasymonkey, Tampermonkey is also valid, but it is proprietary soft.
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A lot of YTubers are changing to Odysee because of this crap.
It'll take a hell of a lot to deteriorate the experience to the point where it becomes just as bad as the regular youtube app.
They already try, so you just update to the next version. Revanced recently had a thing where every video you tried to play would redirect to another video saying to update your app. I did and it worked.
I switched invidious and everything is perfect since then
As long as Invidious continues to work I don’t care about what they’ll do
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.
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...
That sounds a lot like failure to me..
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.
I meant that without these people who constantly work on it, Invidious would instantly die, we shouldn't take them for granted...Google is constantly making changes that breaks it.
Look how well that turned out for Reddit.
Lmao, what you gonna try this time, Google? 🤣
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
you can just feel the evil corporate Cheshire grin behind this paragraph
If the streaming apps will be deteriorated the only option left will be yt-dlp and mpv left
as long as the content is publicly available they cannot block yt-dlp, buffer at best.
I wouldn't be surprised if at some point they start doing something like what Twitter did and require login to view the content.
They might but if they do they'll lose a huge revenue because a lot of website have Youtube videos embedded. Imagine you have to login to view an embedded video. Even website owners won't like that because their videos won't load automatically and they will start to seek alternative options. So I don't think Google would take that risk soon.
It may not be too bad for users: a lot of people are simply always logged on, so they'll not see any difference. What is the current share of Chrome?
I think yt-dlp lets you use your login credentials?
Yes. The thing is that then you are no longer anonymously using yt-dlp.
The next step would be trying to detect that case.. maybe adding captchas when there's even a slight suspicion.
Perhaps even to the point of banning users (and then I hope you did not rely on the same account for gmail or others).
It'll be a cat and mouse situation. Similar as it happened with Twitter, there are also third party apps, but many gave up.
Yup, it has a --cookies flag to either use an exported cookies file from your browser, or if using Firefox just tell it and it'll grab it automagically.
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