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YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay for Music

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Re: YouTube Will ‘Frustrate’ Some Users with Ads So They Pay for Music

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Post by abawany »

nkkollaw wrote: post #15
abawany wrote: post #13

Can confirm. Was running a playlist on a Windows machine with Edge as a cheap substitute for burn-in/stability testing. No dice: it would stop after every song with a ad dialog that required clicking (for YT Red, or for Chrome). Horrible experience generally - it wasn't clear if this torture was reserved for Edge users or I was special that day. I switched to Vevo and it provided the necessary hardware testing that I…

Why not Spotify?

I should have considered it but I am not someone who streams live content so just a static playlist of music videos was all I was looking for.

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Post by aq3cn »

I came across iYTBP - injected YouTube Background Playback. It allows one to

1. view 2k 60 fps videos in app

2. background playback

3. download for forever

4. dark mode

5. no advertisement ever

6. VP9 codec

7. loop playback

8. pip mode

and much more without rooting your phone.

https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-iytb...

This app is also available by Youtube Vanced name in XDA app store for free.

Alternatively, just make the public playlist of videos you like to watch and use youtube-dl cmd tool to download all those videos inside Android using Termux app. I prefer this method over the earlier one.

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Post by Analemma_ »

aq3cn wrote: post #23

I came across iYTBP - injected YouTube Background Playback. It allows one to 1. view 2k 60 fps videos in app 2. background playback 3. download for forever 4. dark mode 5. no advertisement ever 6. VP9 codec 7. loop playback 8. pip mode and much more without rooting your phone. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-iytb... This app is also available by Youtube Vanced name in XDA app store for free. A…

Sooner or later, Google is going to come after this guy. The ProTube app on iOS did most of this stuff, and they made him shut it down.

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

extradesgo wrote: post #12
golem14 wrote: post #3

If true, would it be different than the NPR pledge drives, really ?

Yeah, it's a lot different. NPR used to be publicly funded, much like the BBC in the UK. The idea was to offer objective journalism for the strength of democracy. It has helped a lot in the UK may have helped prevent the current disaster we now experience in the US. When that public funding started being removed, NPR had to start acting more like a private company, satisfying target demographics and seeking seeking d…

I'm no fan of YouTube, but to be fair to them, it's probably not so much about maximizing profit as it is an effort to avoid the wrath of the RIAA.

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Post by imode »

herpderperator wrote: post #17

I have been paying for YouTube Red since 2015. I really like the YouTube Music app and how I can save songs for offline use, and how it's kept up-to-date with songs I like on YouTube (as well as recommended suggestions) whenever my phone goes on WiFi, so my playlist never gets old. You also get other perks like keeping a YouTube video playing in the background on your phone. I prefer using YouTube for music as oppose…

or, or, hear me out...

I could use adblock, a free and crowd-sourced adblocker, to... block the ads.

YouTube already makes copious amounts of money outside of advertising and Red exclusivity. don't force that kind of an annoyance on people if you expect them to A) use your service or B) not subvert the crap you put in front of them.

there is no argument for ads anymore.

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Post by huntie »

aq3cn wrote: post #23

I came across iYTBP - injected YouTube Background Playback. It allows one to 1. view 2k 60 fps videos in app 2. background playback 3. download for forever 4. dark mode 5. no advertisement ever 6. VP9 codec 7. loop playback 8. pip mode and much more without rooting your phone. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-iytb... This app is also available by Youtube Vanced name in XDA app store for free. A…

NewPipe also supports most, if not all, of these features, and it's open source. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

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Post by paul7986 »

YouTube Red is solid as everyone uses Youtube to listen to music. THus it knows and creates the best mix playlist especially if you listen to many, many genres of music. Apple Music like Siri is stupid .. the playlist it creates aren't based on all genres I listen to but only one.

Also Red integrates well with Google Home as you can tell home to wake you up to whatever song and play whatever song.

No commercials is a bonus to all previous mentioned.

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