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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.
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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
What did you actually miss? Is your life worse for it?
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Sponsorblock does allow you to whitelist specific channels. Should be in the settings somewhere, I've only ever done it via the ReVanced app but it should still be an option on desktop.
By "on desktop" I mean FreeTube (and simply not via NewPipe or on mobile). It has options for the different types of things to skip, but my issue is with disagreeing with how overly strict they can be about flagging things as sponsor segments. Some of it is per channel settings (some channels have way too long of sponsor segments), and some of it is just disagreement about how granular to be (on LTT they cut out the…
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Agree, but unfortunately I still can't use it to stream to my Chromecast so I need to go to the YouTube app when I want to play stuff on TV
SmartTube supports Chromecast/Android TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
It runs directly on android tv. The app even says that there is no support for phones or tablets so casting isn't going to work.
I also agree that casting is the major missing feature from all these apps. Mirroring might be a substitute for some but, again to be clear, it isn't the same as casting and in most cases the quality is going to suffer significantly.
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> Let's assume that out of the 29 bn USD revenue that YouTube brings in 55% is shared with creators. Thus we are left with 13 bn USD. That’s a very poor and totally off assumption to start with, and makes it seem like YouTube is extremely generous. I’d guess YouTube shares, at best, 20% of the ad revenue with the content creator.
It's 55%. This is the first non-Google result from a Google search: https://www.yrcharisma.com/the-youtube-revenue-split-who-kee...
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> I'm sure Apple is going to delist it from the App Store at some point (App Store guidelines are just that, guidelines, and there's no getting around them with a weird loophole like you can do with actual laws), but it works for now. Hence F-Droid, which cannot exist on iOS.
Not yet! The EU’s Digital Markets Act will go into force soon.
There are three aspects that people often conflate, the ability to install apps from outside Apple's App Store, the ability to install apps that Apple hasn't notarized, and the ability for developers to skip paying a percentage of app sales to Apple.
We might get all three of these, but we might also get just one or two. I can imagine a world where you'll be free to install a .ipa from any website and pay for in-app purchases with your credit card, but where the .ipa will have to go through App Review and the developer will be audited to ensure that the necessary fees go to Apple.
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It's the old problem of I don't care about anything that you advertised to me, don't care about most of the content that is eating your budget and simply won't stand for being called a criminal after being the reason you are a thing in the first place. You're trying to get my money, I'm trying to get your content. We both cheat. That's always been the game.
So if a store is trying to sell products, and you try to steal them, you are both cheating?
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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
This is a good perspective. What did you actually miss? Is your life worse for it?
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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.