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Re: ReVanced

#121
post #99

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It uses an alternative backend where videos pre-removal had their dislike counters archived, and anything post-removal uses dislike data from users with the extension to crowdsource a likely dislike counter. (in theory, if 5% of viewers of a video are people that have the extension, and only 10% of those viewers hit the dislike button, chances are that's a good sample size to assume that this video should have a 10%…

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There are a lot of clickbait and fraud videos on YouTube. Fake trailers for upcoming movies, videos that pretend to be e.g. a SNL sketch but are just a collage of pictures with a synthesized voiceover, gaming streamers pretending there’s a live event “just about to start” on games like Fortnite.

There’s also disturbing “children’s videos” made by AIs, and fake lifehack or cooking videos that promise things like “if you microwave popcorn with M&Ms you get chocolate covered popcorn”, some of which show dangerous things that have resulted in accidents (e.g. people getting burnt with exploding eggs and the like).

Re: ReVanced

#122
post #69

It 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.

Youtube premium does not block sponsors so even if you buy the subscription you sometimes end up with 2-5mins of ads in video. The only way to get rid of them on mobile is with Vanced

Re: ReVanced

#123

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>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?

I think it used an alternate backend, possibly https://returnyoutubedislike.com/

Yes, it is that one.

Re: ReVanced

#124
post #62

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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.

It's not "a few bucks", it's like $12 a month, more than most streaming services, for the privilege of having it not pause the video when you lock the phone. Which it shouldn't be doing in the first place. Also this yet one more thing on top of the subscriptions you already have. Can't subscribe to all of them.

Re: ReVanced

#125
post #7

Youtube's frequency of ads has become so extreme that I've just yesterday opted to pay 11€/month for YT Premium. I had tried before disabling them with a Pihole or by blocking domains. It didn't work. Also, on a Samsung TV, you can't really install another front end.

1. Get an Android TV device. This is not actually a TV, but a device that connects to your TV via HDMI. Prices vary, but it's not expensive. 2. Install SmartTubeNext on the Android TV. Now you have something better than YouTube Premium: This app supports SponsorBlock, which not only gets rid of YT ads, it also skips filler segments, self-promotion segments and sponsor segments. 3. You can also install a SponsorBlock…

You can also install SmartTubeNext on a Firestick.

Re: ReVanced

#126
post #13
post #7

Youtube's frequency of ads has become so extreme that I've just yesterday opted to pay 11€/month for YT Premium. I had tried before disabling them with a Pihole or by blocking domains. It didn't work. Also, on a Samsung TV, you can't really install another front end.

I have a Sharp TV on my living room and the YT app crashes everytime a certain type of ad is played after the video starts. I don't know if its the video codec or if the TV is having a hard time going back to the original video. Out of nowhere a 5 second chocolate or cheese ad plays and the TV OS completely crashes. Tried attaching an ARM SBC with Librelec but the state of the Youtube apps are extremely broken in a w…

Get an Amazon Firestick and install SmartTubeNext on to it. The Firestick plugs into your HDMI so your TV doesn't need to do any extra processing.

Re: ReVanced

#127
post #37

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not sure MS will be too concerned about Google losing ad revenue

Maybe not, but MS does follow the DMCA takedown process. > "If the notice alleges that the entire contents of a repository infringe, or a package infringes, we will skip to Step 6 and disable the entire repository or package expeditiously." [0] This is what was going on with some Grand Theft Auto mods[1] and youtube-dl [2] [0] https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/content-removal-polic... [1] https://www.thegamer.co…

> MS does follow the DMCA takedown process.

which would be bad if the repo had any copyrighted materials. But does it?

Re: ReVanced

#128
post #69

It 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.

I would pay for YouTube premium but it's not available in my country.

Re: ReVanced

#130
post #129

side note, on iOS, I uninstalled youtube app and use the site in safari with an ad blocker.

works like a charm here as well, and saves me from having another pretty much useless website-as-an-app installed on my phone!
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