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Why would people want this? YouTube creators make their money with ads, so this takes money out of their pockets, too.
I'm intentionally not addressing the advertising revenue issue as that becomes subjective very quickly, just attempting to answer your question through my lens.
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I've looked in iOS settings and can't see anything other than mobile data on/off and Siri?
Apps now require to report what they collect and what tracking they are using. This information is available on app store page of the app.
We need one to replace vanced on Android and Android TV. We have ad blockers for browsers on the desktop.
Their client takes a different approach, and it not only patches YouTube clients, but also Twitter, TikTok, Spotify and Twitch to name a few.
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Nope. No ads as in no sponsor ads either. You cant replicate that with an adblocker. Also it prevents youtube from making a profile out of what you consume.
> No ads as in no sponsor ads either. You cant replicate that with an adblocker. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-for-y...
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You can pay for ad free YouTube by paying for YouTube Premium. No annoying micropayments. All the content with none of the ads. It does not satisfy your anonymous requirement but very little does. Most content creators appreciate (directly or indirectly) the features a non anonymous platform provides.
YouTube premium requires I have a Google account, and consent to Google ToS which includes them tracking my behavior and using it to sell changes in my behavior as a service to the highest bidder. Youtube Premium is not acceptable. I can use cash to buy a book or a movie at a store and not have to reveal anything about myself in the process. No targeting, no having my personal data and behavior collected in centraliz…
You can use Ad Block while using YT Premium.
How is this any different than running youtube in a Firefox container? I feel like it's a lot of reinventing the wheel if you have to do things like Sponsorblock, Adblock, etc. all over again instead of just relying on your current browser setup.
You can route all traffic through community invidious instances so Google can not even track what content is consumed by your IP. It also automatically skips all ads, even sponsor segments in videos. You also avoid needing to have a Google account to keep up with subscriptions, and you avoid content suppression as the sponsor-prioritized advertiser-friendly algorithms are turned off.
"Google uses IPs to track you" has been theorized since 2010 or maybe even before, but I've never seen any study or evidence that it actually does so. So, so much of the internet is built on NAT, shared IP space, and short-lived IP addresses that it really doesn't seem like there is any ROI in having engineers keep their IP correlation tech in service and tracking its efficacy.
Is there something similar built as Kodi addon? I made heavy use of its YT addon in the past, then a few years ago Google revoked their free API keys so that anyone wanting to watch YouTube videos had to login using their personal API key (which I don't have and don't plan to get) with all privacy implications. I can watch videos on a PC, so why do I have to give my credentials to do the same on Kodi? In both early 2…