Why is this a link to the play store? what are you trying to show us here OP?
YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
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Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#32I 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
Revanced is not bad with Sponsorblock + hiding shorts. Haven't tried but I don't see why it couldn't be used without logging in.
I do appreciate NewPipe for helping cut down on YT feed scrolling and just focusing on subscriptions. For a while I'd completely migrated to NewPipeSponsorblock but that fork became unmaintained and at the time there didn't seem to be an alternative.
Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#33I 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.
I'm a Premium subscriber but am seriously considering stopping that in favor of Revanced or Newpipe. Presumably they both let me disable shorts permanently versus bullshit like only being able to hide them for thirty days?
Revanced enables completely hiding shorts.
Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#34I 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.
I'm a Premium subscriber but am seriously considering stopping that in favor of Revanced or Newpipe. Presumably they both let me disable shorts permanently versus bullshit like only being able to hide them for thirty days?
What's crazy is I'm using Revanced with a Premium account. I'm more than happy to pay for YouTube even as much as I don't love Google, but I'm still going to opt for the vastly better experience if I have the option.
As far as I know, you can indeed disable Shorts in ReVanced. The defaults in ReVanced may need some tweaking to your liking, but there's quite a lot of options.
Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#35Why is this a link to the play store? what are you trying to show us here OP?
The two top comments since the November 7th updatee have thousands of upvotes because of affected users. Comments:
ThSAWistheLAW WC (11/7/24) "I like this app but it is not functioning correctly at the moment. If your video that you're viewing must be interrupted by a message notification or if you simply turn your phone right side up to read the messages or comments the video will stop playing and it will not start no matter how many times you hit the play button. Other than that it's a fine app."
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michael. jacqui (11/8/24) "New update is awful. It no longer saves where you left off on a video. If you swipe down and leave the video going to search for a new one it automatically paused the video. When you go back to play the video it cannot play unless you select a new video and then have to reselect the video you want to watch to get it to play. The app is horrible and extremely frustrating."
Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why would you bother to use or even more so patch the official youtube client if not to sign in to your account? It's objectively shitter (bloated, buggy, full of dark patterns) than the open-source alternatives. NewPipe/PipePipe work beautifully without an associated account...
Re: YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
Why would you bother to use or even more so patch the official youtube client if not to sign in to your account? It's objectively shitter (bloated, buggy, full of dark patterns) than the open-source alternatives. NewPipe/PipePipe work beautifully without an associated account...
To watch NSFW videos?