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Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by oleksii88 »

patwolf wrote: post #18

The UI issues I've noticed aren't really bugs as much as they're intentional UI changes that happen to be poorly thought out. I'm used to Google randomly changing the UI for seemingly no benefit, but these changes are especially egregious considering how much of my youtube interaction is muscle memory. For example, you used to be able to double tap just about anywhere on the screen to fast forward or rewind 10 second…

>Now on the first tap the bottom half of the screen becomes an overlay with a bunch of action buttons, causing the second tap to inadvertently engage one of the buttons.

Thank you for saying this. I thought I was going crazy as I suddenly started to skip to the next video when I just want to forward it. I'm still not sure if this is an intentional change or a bug

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by SushiHippie »

treyd wrote: post #12
panki27 wrote: post #5

I just wish they hadn't killed Invidious :( There seems to be no way anymore to keep a public instance working.

I don't understand this, NewPipe has continued to work.

NewPipe has it's own library NewPipeExtractor and does the work on your device, so IP bans aren't really a problem compared to a hosted instances where multiple clients access youtube through the IP of the instance. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

Piped is an alternative to Invidious which uses the NewPipeExtractor library: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

But instances with high traffic or 'suspicious IP Adresses' can still be banned very quickly.

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by miah_ »

This is why I only watch Youtube via Firefox mobile, plus I can use a adblocker with that.

Google is garbage at this point. Every employee there is simply promotion farming and has no concept of what a backbone is. Everything they do is utter trash and only about feeding their algorithm or collecting your data.

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Post by miah_ »

jchw wrote: post #6

I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.

Just use Firefox.

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by miah_ »

jraph wrote: post #13
jchw wrote: post #6

I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.

NewPipe [1] and its derivatives like Tubular that include SponsorBlock (and dislikes, but I don't use this feature) are also great. They let you follow channels and build playlists without a Google account and play stuff in background. You can find those apps on F-Droid by adding the relevant repositories. [1] https://newpipe.net/ [2] https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

Grayjay is also excellent.

https://grayjay.app/

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by fallingsquirrel »

phoronixrly wrote: post #10
jchw wrote: post #6

I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.

Bold of you to risk your Google account by accessing it through a patched client... No amount of complaining on HN will bring it back when Google decides to banhammer all people who break their TOS in such a stupid way.

1. Why would you ever login to youtube in the first place?

2. There's strength in numbers. Between adblockers, foss clients, and youtube-dl/yt-dlp, there are probably tens to hundreds of millions of people watching youtube this way. If YT banhammers everyone for that they would end up banning a sizable fraction of the earth's population all in one day. Even Google isn't stupid enough to do that.

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by cholantesh »

jraph wrote: post #13
jchw wrote: post #6

I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.

NewPipe [1] and its derivatives like Tubular that include SponsorBlock (and dislikes, but I don't use this feature) are also great. They let you follow channels and build playlists without a Google account and play stuff in background. You can find those apps on F-Droid by adding the relevant repositories. [1] https://newpipe.net/ [2] https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular

and SmartTube (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube) if you have an Android TV.

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by jchw »

phoronixrly wrote: post #10
jchw wrote: post #6

I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.

Bold of you to risk your Google account by accessing it through a patched client... No amount of complaining on HN will bring it back when Google decides to banhammer all people who break their TOS in such a stupid way.

I already downloaded copies of all of the data I care about, and keep as much stuff as possible completely disconnected from my personal Google account. I'm also a Xoogler that is completely aware that Googlers use these things too (including youtube-dl, lol.)

I guess it is good to keep people aware of the possibility, but I do also want as many people as possible to join in. If they want to ban all of us, that's fine by me. Sincerely.

Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs

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Post by jchw »

miah_ wrote: post #25
jchw wrote: post #6

I recommend ReVanced if you're going to use YouTube on Android device. https://revanced.app/ This should also leave you on a slightly older version of the app, too, which might bypass any recent issues with updates. But, it has a ton of useful builtin features, like bring-back-dislikes and sponsorblock.

Just use Firefox.

On desktop I do! (Though I use the Librewolf patches rather than vanilla.) But you can't use background video playback on mobile devices without the app (to my knowledge) and I don't think picture in picture works, either. Plus, I generally recommend Fennec F-Droid on Android rather than the stupid shitty version of Firefox that compromised Mozilla puts out these days.
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