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Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by Rastonbury »

bisby wrote: post #172
wkat4242 wrote: post #127

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Yeah this is the best version. I liked newpipe but their attitude to sponsorblock is tiring. But I moved to libretube now. Newpipe kept throwing up errors when I jumped around a video.

I use sponsorblock on desktop, and sometimes I find the parts that they skip annoying. I don't fully agree with where and when they skip things. Watching Hot Ones today, they had a segment about how they have Hot Ones Hot Pockets now. and it skipped over it. But also, the hot pockets were a big part of the episode. For LTT videos, they skip the entire segue, instead of leaving the segue and then skipping the sponsor.…

I actually like it being aggressive, the fewer minutes of my life I spend on content of questionable value the better, I already watch too much youtube for my own good and never find rewinding back through a skipped section worth it

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Post by tomrod »

rplnt wrote: post #237
jrflowers wrote: post #109

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This is good advice. If you own an iOS device you should consider not owning an iOS device.

I would love not to, but there is not a single human-sized (as in can be operated by human hand) android phone on the market that is also not a slow budget ohone. Now there is no iphone either, but the last minis should last a while.

Apple's moving away from them as well, to the detriment of their design edge.

[0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23868428/iphone-13-mini-l...

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Post by carlosjobim »

ekianjo wrote: post #210
endisneigh wrote: post #71

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People want content without any inconvenience, it’s that simple. If they use ads they will block. If they ask for payment they will pirate. Luckily these people are the minority or there would be no content to begin with

> Luckily these people are the minority or there would be no content to begin with Most authors write books without making any money for years. They write because they enjoy writing. Not because they need it to make a living. So your statement is easily invalidated by reality

They write because they enjoy writing, but they also need to make a living. Those things are not exclusive.

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Post by red_admiral »

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.

There's at least three kinds of videos on Youtube and friends.

The first are ones not related to making money in any way, someone doing their thing "for fun" or similar.

The second are ones where it might be someone's "day job" but the money isn't coming in through youtube ads. For example, a band putting their songs online for essentially free because money comes from fans going to concerts, buying CDs, or merchandise. Having the videos available essentially for free means that more people can discover the music and maybe become paying fans. Or a cook who's brought out their own book showing some of the recipes online hoping that people will buy the book. Or a martial arts school putting videos of some training or contests online hoping among other things that people will join up for real.

The third are the "content creator" ones where the author's whole business is the videos themselves and the ads are their primary revenue stream. It's not that there aren't some really good offerings in this space - there are - but if the choice is Youtube with the full ads/tracking/targeting soup or not at all, my life will carry on without this category.

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Post by crazygringo »

Now that Google is cracking down on adblockers, are any 3rd-party apps like this going to survive? I'm assuming Google's going to do things to break them.

Which makes me worried about yt-dlp as well -- sometimes I download educational videos and other useful content I'm worried might get deleted, and with the crackdown on adblockers, I'm worried the ability to download videos will just completely cease to exist.

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Post by judge2020 »

eur0pa wrote: post #246
judge2020 wrote: post #149

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> Your use of the Service is subject to these terms, the YouTube Community Guidelines and the Policy, Safety and Copyright Policies which may be updated from time to time (together, this "Agreement"). https://www.youtube.com/t/terms Even if you don't think you have to follow them, they can still ban you for not following their terms, or not agreeing to them. They are not under an obligation to serve you video unauthe…

I haven't agreed to any of that; don't remember signing anything. This stuff does not hold up in EU. My device, my rules.

This is in the situation they block you from watching if you don’t watch are. They are under no obligation to serve you/your device, so they can institute any amount of technical requirements to gain access to the content it hosts, those requirements being plainly laid out in the terms.

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Post by FirmwareBurner »

poink wrote: post #102
endisneigh wrote: post #71

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People want content without any inconvenience, it’s that simple. If they use ads they will block. If they ask for payment they will pirate. Luckily these people are the minority or there would be no content to begin with

> Luckily these people are the minority or there would be no content to begin with There is a whole galaxy of content creators who make great stuff but clearly aren’t making a living directly off content. People like making content for tons of reasons.

>People like making content for tons of reasons.

Pretty much yeah. Just remember back to the first few years of youtube. Nobody was making any money from that but they were still doing it out of passion/hobby.

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