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YouTube's war against third party apps is just as ridiculous as its war on adblockers (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Ads have almost always been part and parcel of the YouTube experience. However, there's a point at which ads become so frequent, so irrelevant, and so relentless that they start hurting the user experience. We've been past that point for a while now.

Ironically, without an ad blocker it’s hard to read the Android Police blog. I invite anyone to try.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I turned mine off just because of your comment and I counted 15 on that page. 🤢🤮

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Allegiance to Google is what's ridiculous, they haven't deserved to exist since their IPO and the parasite they are needs to be pulled off the internet

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Firefox for Android, AdBlock, Firefox -> Chrome user agent fake plugin. Works very well without any ads or issues.

This supports PiP which is YouTube premium feature.

I would jump ship instantly to something better if the content would be there.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Is there an iOS equivalent of this setup?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Firefox probably exist for iOS but I assume plugin support to be poor, because of apple.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Just use Piped or Invidious.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

After they killed YouTube Vanced, I switched to New Pipe and never looked back

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 months ago

For those wondering, ReVanced launcher short after that and is even better than Vanced.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Long time NewPipe user here, have you tried FreeTube?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

No, I've never even heard of this. Is it better than NewPipe?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It is faster, doesn't crash and you can read the answers to all comments. It lacks some features of NewPipe like the display dimming via swipe, but has some UI advantages (sharing without timestamp, you pain in the ass!).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

New version of newpipe can already do that tho, glad that these projects are giving each other inspiration to work on the features that user want, unlike certain company

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The API feels faster for me than newpipe but its a PWA. pewpipe's UI is native to android, feels easier to use.

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