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YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps like ReVanced(www.androidpolice.com)

posted 6 months ago

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SSUPII@sopuli.xyz

101 points

6 months ago

This article is pretty much an ad for Youtube Premium

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DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyz

31 points

6 months ago

But they’re just sharing the fact Youtube Premium™ offers a lot of people great benefits, like background play, and music!

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Coasting0942@reddthat.com

12 points

6 months ago

And a larger percentage of post operating revenue!

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bastardsheep@aussie.zone

6 points

6 months ago

Background play is bloody annoying if you don’t use YT for music. I prefer videos to stop when I switch apps, then resume when I switch back. Now they keep playing.

And I’m starting to get recommendations of music that I can’t remove or tell it I’m not interested in.

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sorghum@sh.itjust.works

4 points

6 months ago

I remember when YouTube had background playback for free. An update broke it, then it was put behind a paywall.

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CaptObvious@literature.cafe

6 points

6 months ago

Came here to say this

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yuuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com

68 points

6 months ago

Deleted by creator

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CaptObvious@literature.cafe

60 points

6 months ago

Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.

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Titou@sh.itjust.works

2 points

4 months ago

Guess i’ll download all of my medias and put them on a hard drive

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thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.net

36 points

6 months ago

thing is, i’d proboably have forked over the money for YouTube Premium by now if my only issue with the YouTube app was ads. its not. the app is genuinely unusable for me if I don’t apply the tweaks I need, especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.

rather than allow users to make these tweaks, google would go on a witch hunt for these apps because it would be unprofitable to allow users to avoid the brainrot that is Shorts, or the many another “features” they’ve bogged the app down with.

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KyuubiNoKitsune@kbin.social

16 points

6 months ago

especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.

Fucking hell man, it’s so annoying! Best is when you open the app and it automatically starts on the shorts tab blasting some insufferable video.

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Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.net

7 points

6 months ago

Does the app let you change the playback speed to something rational like 0.9x, 1.1x, 1.2x, 1.3x? I’ve almost never found a video where 1.25x was the optimal listening speed. YT’s default playback speeds are shit for accessibility.

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thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.net

10 points

6 months ago

unfortunately no, but you could implement it as a ReVanced patch if you really wanted this functionality.

edit: wait nvm its in the revanced settings, you can set whatever custom playback speeds you want to appear in the menu

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shortwavesurfer@monero.town

1 point

6 months ago

Oh, interesting. I can’t stand how slow videos are, so I always turn them up to 1.5 or 1.75x. Hell, the only time I ever use the default speed is for music because obviously that does not work.

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SitD@feddit.de

32 points

6 months ago

when newpipe stops working I’ll stop using YouTube 😂 maybe my life will be better, who knows

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AditzuL@lemmy.dbzer0.com

9 points

6 months ago

There was a different article earlier today and they were speaking about stuff like ReVanced and API access. Since new pipe has not agreed to the APIs terms and services, that means they should be safe

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