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Louis Rossmann had a video introducing this app, but I can’t find it. Did YouTube force him to take down that video, anybody knows?
Yes... youtube gave the videos a community guideline strike and removed them. You can watch the videos in this thread: https://x.com/futo_tech/status/1719468941582442871?s=46
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Despite the name, it actually blocks a lot more than just sponsors. It can be set to automatically skip intros, outros, recaps, like and subscribe reminders, non-music sections of music videos, and other "fluff". It significantly boosts the signal to noise ratio, and makes YouTube a much better experience.
That sounds very useful on the non-ad improvements, and oddly enough I might try it for these areas. The sponsor mentions don't really bother me and I just skip them if they're not relevant. Sometimes it's kind of neat to see one and think "Oh, this creator got sponsored by , that's cool, get paid!", or if they're sponsored by bs snake oil companies, then I may discount the creator's input a great deal on account of…
Youtube seems to be quite efficient with blocking all opensource players. They change the API regulary on purpose. Never had such app working longer than few weeks.
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This is good advice. If you own an iOS device you should consider not owning an iOS device.
As a long time iOS user, I used a Pixel with Graphene for a whole year. Android has so many rough edges, and the Pixel hardware is still a few years behind the iPhone. I switched back. I miss syncthing and being able to install the apps that I want, but my phone is too important a device for rough edges.
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I believe the one thing i see lacking for newpipe is viewing livestreams. Revanced is the way to go for a good youtube experience, but i use newpipe for downloading and saving a video offline.
I can view live streams in NewPipe 0.25.2 and I think I airways did. This is a live stream I just watched to check that it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8 It's a water pool in the Namib desert, so safe for work
There were times in the past where this was not the case, but it was likely 0.24 or before.
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The end game is encrypted DRM stream (which is decrypted in the display) with encoded ads (so you can't block it tinkering with JS). I guess that only abundance of devices without DRM is stopping this scenario.
How are the ads even skippable on YouTube? I have never really had a good answer to that. I mean, why is the ad even a different stream or detectable on the client? Shouldn't the ads just be spliced into the videos if you really want to make sure people watch them? Is it because it would be prohibitively expensive to do that kind of live encoding for each viewer?
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.
My (at the time) 2 year old daughter actually cried the first time she saw an ad on the YouTube app.
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 mind LTT-style sponsorships that are relevant and neatly presented as part of the video, but randomly jump cutting to a car insurance ad just ruins the experience and it's easy to see why people would block these. My (at the time) 2 year old daughter actually cried the first time she saw an ad on the YouTube app.