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Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by ryncewynd »

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

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

What's the channel that does ad reads to demo microphone quality?

That's such a simple and genius idea

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by 2Gkashmiri »

bisby wrote: post #213
2Gkashmiri wrote: post #193

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You can configure sponsorblock with various options. End credits, sponsored sections, lots of things

Right. My issue is that I disagree with what they consider "sponsored sections" sometimes. "Only skip sponsor segments longer than 30 seconds" isn't an option. Long ads that make up most of the video: bad. A brief passing comment about "And thanks to our sponsor for supporting this video" dont need a cut.

that entirely depends on the user contributions. you know its people manually submitting these snippets of what to skip and not automatic?

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by djtango »

TerrifiedMouse wrote: post #138
SkipperTool wrote: post #125

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People forget that over-advertising can be more damaging than no- or under-advertising. Take Ryan Reynolds and Mint Mobile. I genuinely love his acting (to each their own for sure) but after being constantly bombarded with commercials for Mint Mobile, I legitimately am tired and lately avoid not just him, but Mint Mobile, Ryan Reynolds, and anything associated with him. The problem with YouTube is not that they have…

> The problem with YouTube is not that they have ads...it is that the platform sprays for effect while claiming to care about what they are doing when any reasonable user can tell that they are simply flooding the pipes with ad content. From what I heard, Google’s sells ad space via an auction system. They collect information about a viewer then when said viewer watches a video/visits a website, all the ad space on t…

I'm actually relatively chilled about ads. I like to see who is advertising what from a macro POV but one thing online was super bad at was spamming ads at you. The most egregious was Crunchyroll back in the day where you might see the same ad back to back 3 times in a row for every ep you watched.

Maybe the fix is actually to adjust and make the ad lower energy and more bland to target the subliminal more, assuming the online ad networks don't sort themselves out

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by drbacon »

AnonHP wrote: post #204
anoncow wrote: post #42

I can't find a source which has all the financial figures for YouTube, but YouTube had a gross revenue of 29 bn USD in 2022. Alphabet had 55 bn USD in net income in 2022 of which how much was YouTube's share in the net income is unknown (or at least I couldn't find it). Let's use some assumptions to get to a number. 1. Let's assume that out of the 29 bn USD revenue that YouTube brings in 55% is shared with creators.…

> 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...

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by WD40forRust »

DrNosferatu wrote: post #12

Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

Also check out BraveNewPipe, which is NewPipe x SponsorBlock with proper search options NewPipe also refuses to implement as nofix!

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by savingsPossible »

MBCook wrote: post #145
falcor84 wrote: post #99

It's almost perfect, except for the fact that I really like being able to thumbs-up videos I like, to support the creators. I feel really uncomfortable not having that option.

How does giving a thumbs up “support the creators”? I’m sure they’d rather you watch the ads or pay for premium.

OR, hear me out... Subscribe to the patreon or other non-google revenue stream

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by pmontra »

chii wrote: post #178
jaquesy wrote: post #10

I've been using this for years to download YouTube videos when I go on trips, it makes it super easy since you can just share the link directly from YouTube to NewPipe and it'll pop up a neat download UI to select quality and threads to use. Really great app for that purpose, although I will say I just used ReVanced for general YouTube browsing on my phone.

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

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by addandsubtract »

ryncewynd wrote: post #221
bisby wrote: post #172

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.…

What's the channel that does ad reads to demo microphone quality? That's such a simple and genius idea

Not the channel that OP meant, but Tom Scott recently did a video on decibel and loudness, where he reads a sponsor message during a mic check: https://youtu.be/Is_wu0VRIqQ
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