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I had stopped using Vanced a few weeks back, because I couldn’t download videos beyond 360p. Now I know about Newpipe, but I manually download some videos with youtube-dl and then Syncthing them to my cell phone. Then watch it with VLC. It works perfectly fine for me. Btw, I think they had to stop because they tried to profit from it. I dislike them for it. Apparently they tried to mint NFTs [0]. Later they said it w…
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It's just a conveyor belt of bs. I can't disable comments, chat, etc. I don't care about uploading shorts. I'm tired of constant redesigns or moving things around. I just want to see videos related to what I search for or channels I'm subscribed to. I instantly feel like I'm capital to be maximized rather than a respected user when I open YouTube. Edit: While typing this they felt the need to use a push notification…
> I can't disable comments, chat, etc. Comments under video are just a thin 50px tall bar, just don't click on it? Just like you don't have to scroll down on the web. Just fullscreen and watch your video. > I don't care about uploading shorts Then don't press the shorts button? > I'm tired of constant redesigns or moving things around I don't think youtube gets that much redesign. On android, the biggest recent chang…
I had stopped using Vanced a few weeks back, because I couldn’t download videos beyond 360p. Now I know about Newpipe, but I manually download some videos with youtube-dl and then Syncthing them to my cell phone. Then watch it with VLC. It works perfectly fine for me. Btw, I think they had to stop because they tried to profit from it. I dislike them for it. Apparently they tried to mint NFTs [0]. Later they said it w…
You mean watch? Vanced doesn't let you downlooad videos at all.
I downloaded 1080p videos regularly before it went bad. I downloaded whole playlists.
I can still download videos, but the resolution options are 144p ajd 360p.
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It's $15 a month here. I don't think I can happily pay $0.50 every day just to be able to keep listening to the news after I push the lock button on my phone. I'd be happy to support youtube if they actually supported their community and content creators, but right now, my opinion on youtube itself is that it's hostile to anyone who needs to use it.
> I'd be happy to support youtube if they actually supported their community and content creators YouTube Premium does support creators, 55% of your subscription gets split among the creators you watch. The more you watch a specific creator, the more they get from your subscription. I've seen some creators say they get more from Premium users than from ad-watching users.
Examples of youtube's hostility include removing dislikes to please ad companies under the guise of user safety, terrible account recovery processes and allowing copyright bots to shutdown channels by spamming claims because youtube has placed the onus of proof on copyright creators, and not the ones actually making the claims.
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A great issue for me with NewPipe is the fact that it does not support signing into an account. The developers claim it's a feature that will not be implemented. Without the great music recommendation system I might as well just listen to my Jellyfin song collection. What value does YouTube even have without recommendations?
you are literally the first person I know that enjoy youtube recommendations. It pushes trash to my feed.
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This is my primary use case for Newpipe. There is another workaround by using desktop mode in Firefox Android.
If you run Firefox nightly, it's possible to enable additional extensions, including background video fix.
How badly Mozilla messed up with Firefox on Android is worth another topic, however.
[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/it/android/addon/video-background...
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How is that taking money from the creators? They still get paid, and I don't have to watch a presentation about some garbage I'll never buy.
> How is that taking money from the creators? Long term if no one buys the sponsorships will fall off. > I'll never buy Of course if you know with absolutely 100% certainty that you'll never buy or mention to others (you might not need/want a WidgitotronAsAService, but maybe someone you know asks about them later) anything ever mentioned in a sponsor spot, then no there is no loss (and I envy your clairvoyance). I co…
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You mean watch? Vanced doesn't let you downlooad videos at all.
What? I downloaded 1080p videos regularly before it went bad. I downloaded whole playlists. I can still download videos, but the resolution options are 144p ajd 360p.
Or, did you mean using a NewPipe or some other kind of plugin? Because that doesn't download it directly on the YouTube app.