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Re: ReVanced

#31
post #7

Youtube's frequency of ads has become so extreme that I've just yesterday opted to pay 11€/month for YT Premium. I had tried before disabling them with a Pihole or by blocking domains. It didn't work. Also, on a Samsung TV, you can't really install another front end.

I use NewPipe on my Nvidia Shield. It's not very polished but it gets the job done and is FOSS.

Re: ReVanced

#34
post #7

Youtube's frequency of ads has become so extreme that I've just yesterday opted to pay 11€/month for YT Premium. I had tried before disabling them with a Pihole or by blocking domains. It didn't work. Also, on a Samsung TV, you can't really install another front end.

This is cable tv all over again. Pretty soon there will be ads on paid YouTube subscriptions too, mark my words.

I wouldn't be surprised, but it's also the moment I stop paying for YT Premium.

Re: ReVanced

#35

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I have YT Red, but still use Vanced so I can disable "addictive" functionalities (primarily _Stories_) which I cannot disable in the regular YT app.

The Shorts are all crappy rips of TikTok videos anyway. Who would waste their time watching it?

Re: ReVanced

#36

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YouTube red doesn't have Sponsorblock, pure black dark theme, turn off cast buttons among other layout options. There's probably other stuff but these are some stuff I would love in addition to YTRed.

Re: ReVanced

#38
post #23

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This is cable tv all over again. Pretty soon there will be ads on paid YouTube subscriptions too, mark my words.

There are: “now for a quick word about this week’s sponsor”

I mean, that's on content creators doing live reads, and YT has nothing to do with it.

Re: ReVanced

#39
post #5

Apparently Vanced was a patched YouTube app for Android, removing ads, adding a dark theme and YouTube Premium features (probably more ?). It was discontinued two weeks ago: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/13/22975890/youtube-vanced-a...

best part of vanced was the ability to background youtube so you can listen to music with the screen being locked

Re: ReVanced

#40
post #7

Youtube's frequency of ads has become so extreme that I've just yesterday opted to pay 11€/month for YT Premium. I had tried before disabling them with a Pihole or by blocking domains. It didn't work. Also, on a Samsung TV, you can't really install another front end.

This is a godsend for Android TVs: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
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