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Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by _joel »

globular-toast wrote: post #254
iamflimflam1 wrote: post #240

It’s surprising how many people in the comments don’t want adverts, don’t want sponsorship AND don’t want to pay anything for content.

Why would I want to pay for anything? Consumers generally seek the lowest possible price. That's how economics works. YouTube wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't "free". I do pay for my internet connection and bandwidth. But obviously I found the best possible deal. There is the busking model and I do choose to contribute a small amount to a small number of creators that I can tell put a lot of cash and effort into t…

| YouTube wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't "free".

People forget Gopher was around before WWW and wanted to charge for commercial entities. If they'd not done that then the outcome of the internet would have been different (imho)

https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/vms/networking/gopher/gopher-so...

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by _joel »

Roark66 wrote: post #233

Don't forget about android TV :-) There is SmartTubeNext with ad/sponsor block and most importantly it let's you remove shorts, news, games, music, transmissions. And it is open source.

I use this daily and it's been an absolute breath of fresh air, making youtube actually watchable.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by IMSAI8080 »

m-p-3 wrote: post #94
DrNosferatu wrote: post #12

Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

There is also LibreTube that comes with SponsorBlock https://libretube.dev/

And FreeTube for desktop (just has regular adblock). It's an alternate client with a nice UI with a similar layout to YouTube.

https://freetubeapp.io/

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Post by yard2010 »

winwang wrote: post #260
noman-land wrote: post #15

NewPipe is the best. Dunno how people watch YouTube without it. You can also subscribe to channels from it without a YouTube account.

It's extremely simple: I pay for Premium.

How can you disable tiktok on youtube? I've been a paying customer for years and I would happily pay more to remove this cancer.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by HeavyStorm »

gobip wrote: post #251
5ersi wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So if a store is trying to sell products, and you try to steal them, you are both cheating?

If I come to your house, destroy your door, steal your mom's dinner for 4 ppl, are we both cheating? How about we compare with something actually worth comparing for? For example switching channels when there's the ad break, or turning the sound off, etc. When I download something, I'm not "stealing it". When I block an ad, I'm not stealing either. I didn't remove 10$ from Google's bank account that was there before.

If you don't pay your electric bills you never removed money from where it was before. Does it now applies?

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by HeavyStorm »

yread wrote: post #258
iamflimflam1 wrote: post #240

It’s surprising how many people in the comments don’t want adverts, don’t want sponsorship AND don’t want to pay anything for content.

If you get people hooked by being free you can't be surprised they want it to be free

It's still free, you're not paying for anything.

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Post by adrusi »

micw wrote: post #45
DrNosferatu wrote: post #12

Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

Honestly, I do not understand why one should use this. I have recently seen some high quality YT videos, each of a length of 30-60 minutes. In those videos where some sponsors mentioned which took only one or two minutes. Seems perfectly OK for me to support the creators. I guess if many people block sponsor content, this kind of vids will die.

I do not understand why one should use this

I don't care to sit through sponsor reads, nothing more to it than that. When I'm viewing on a client that doesn't support sponsorblock, I'll manually seek to the end of the segment. Supporting the creator is great; I pay for YouTube Premium, though thanks to uBlock Origin I wouldn't see the add if even if I stopped paying. To a couple creators, I send a regular donation. If I could spend another $10/mo to make up for any revenue my sponsorblock usage loses other creators, I'd do that, but I'm less enthusiastic about regularly listening to sales pitches for the same products over and over again.

Also: I'm not sure how common it is for YouTube sponsorship contracts to have payment contingent on the view count for the section of the video with the sponsored segment, and I'm not sure if the way sponsorblock skips such segments is visible to YouTube's analytics. With at least some of the most prolific sponsors of creators I watch (Audible, Brilliant, etc) the payout is based on how many viewers sign up for a trial through the affiliate link. And YouTube has no incentive to make it easy for creators to share their detailed analytics with third-party sponsors, since independent sponsorships cut YouTube out of the deal. YouTube would prefer creators replace their independent sponsor reads with mid-roll ads.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by wkjagt »

MBCook wrote: post #145
falcor84 wrote: post #99

It's almost perfect, except for the fact that I really like being able to thumbs-up videos I like, to support the creators. I feel really uncomfortable not having that option.

How does giving a thumbs up “support the creators”? I’m sure they’d rather you watch the ads or pay for premium.

Not my comment, but maybe support isn't the right word. One person I watch on YouTube says something like "if you enjoyed this video, give a thumbs up. If you didn't, give a thumbs down. It helps me understand which topics you find interesting."

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by severus_snape »

iamflimflam1 wrote: post #240

It’s surprising how many people in the comments don’t want adverts, don’t want sponsorship AND don’t want to pay anything for content.

I don't want ads all over my screen when I browse the web. It doesn't mean I don't want to pay for content (I do pay). If ads were all blocked, websites would charge for content, and I believe people would pay. I would. I'm glad to pay for a better quality of life and less consumerism. Meanwhile I use NewPipe and uBlock Origin which I believe have a good impact on this society.
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