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New pipe will do that too. Or just watching the video in the phone browser.
Or you know, paying a few bucks for the music via Premium subscription.
youtube should be regulated as the monopoly it is.
ReVanced
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It also restored the dislike button and added support for sponsorblock (which can automatically skip sponsor segments, as well as intros, outros, "like and subscribe" reminders, non-music sections of music videos, and other fluff.) The name comes from it being an "advanced" YouTube app, only without any "ad"s ;) Oh, and you could disable the comments section! All-in-all, it just made YouTube a much better experience.
>It also restored the dislike button As a useless button to click? I would assume youtube removed the actual functionality in the backend so what's the point of the button?
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#73It always suprises me how unwilling the tech community is to support creators on YouTube. You're not hurting YouTube by blocking ads, you're hurting the people who get ads from their videos. Just pay for Youtube Premium - its no different than Spotify or Apple music price-wise and people shell out for that without thinking every month.
You are forgetting about things like patreon or buying merch which will generate much more revenue for the creator than premium does.
LinusTechTips made a video specifically about the issue of Vanced from the perspective of a user as well as a creator.
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Android has smarttube app which is even better (imho) compared to official youtube app, even if you pay for adfree For starters, it supports sponsorblock which is even more adblocking. Secondly i think ux is miles better You dont need root but you need to manually download and install it
That's really nice, I need to save this for when I buy an android tv
Be warned, even if you can block ads in youtube apps, most TV brands (and Google) started putting ads in their home screen. Mine was alright for 2-3 years but early this year there was an update that started putting "Watch these cool stuff in Disney app" and it is not removable.
I rolled back the update for my home screen app, which works for now. I think you are able to use entirely different home screen apps but I didn't want to go that far yet. The moment I can't disable ads is the moment I will start using PI and using my TV as a dumb screen
Re: ReVanced
#75What did Google expect? If they take this one down another will appear to take its place, and so on.
When you essentially have a monopoly position, and most of your product updates are to improve your own revenue and not to make the customer experience better because you simply don’t have to do that anymore, eventually people will try to revolt and create alternatives. Because of the network effect lock-in, this kind of creativity (patching the existing monopolist’s app rather than creating a whole new service) is one of the more accessible methods of trying to improve the product. I’m not making a judgment on whether or not it is right, but from a purely providing-the-best-product-to-the-user perspective, I am happy to see alternatives flourish.
Re: ReVanced
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With TVs it is especially important to look at the _software_ it comes with. If it is some locked-down piece which requires the blessing of the manufacturer to install anything on it, then I would stay away from such TVs. It seems to me that Android TVs offer at least some degree of customization because it is possible to install apps there. But the value you get from them depends on whether you can get the root acce…
The answer is to grab a Pi or similar tiny box and treat the TV as a dumb monitor. This works very well.
Host based content blockers have no future. Ad companies have been moving to first-party ad delivery in the past few years, and YouTube serves ads and videos from the same host.
Edit: nevermind, I've completely misread your comment to be about Pi-hole :)
Re: ReVanced
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New pipe will do that too. Or just watching the video in the phone browser.
Or you know, paying a few bucks for the music via Premium subscription.
YouTube premium isn't available in all countries yet, although it's in way more countries than it was s few years ago
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The problem is we don't like being extorted. We're not gonna pay for the "privilege" of not being shown ads. Especially since that'll make us even more valuable targets for advertisers, videos will still have paid promotion segments and Google will still be collecting information on us.
Re: ReVanced
#79Is this somehow based on the original Vanced app (which wasn't open source afaik?) or are they essentially beginning from scratch?
don't know for sure, but since Vanced wasn't open-source, ReVanced possibly decompiled it and extracted the patches?
Re: ReVanced
#80It always suprises me how unwilling the tech community is to support creators on YouTube. You're not hurting YouTube by blocking ads, you're hurting the people who get ads from their videos. Just pay for Youtube Premium - its no different than Spotify or Apple music price-wise and people shell out for that without thinking every month.
No thank you. If the only reason people make videos is so I'll watch the ads, they can go straight to hell where they belong.