YouTube goes for the jugular as it begins cracking down on third-party apps
    • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

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

      • bastardsheep@aussie.zoneEnglish
        6·
        2 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.

      • sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        2 months ago

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

  • thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
    36·
    2 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.

    • KyuubiNoKitsune@kbin.social
      16·
      2 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.

    • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      7·
      2 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.

      • thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        2 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

      • shortwavesurfer@monero.townEnglish
        1·
        2 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.

  • SitD@feddit.deEnglish
    32·
    2 months ago

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

    • AditzuL@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      9·
      2 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

    • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      8·
      2 months ago

      You know what doesn’t suck?

      • Freetube on PC
      • Libretube on Android
      • SmartTube on AndroidTV

      I like revanced, but these are cooler :)

        • burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          2 months ago

          Eh. Mine freaks out and fails half the time I try to go full screen. And the frame rate seems like it gets awful randomly.

        • shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          That works, but If you are okay with that experience, I encourage you even more to give libretube a try

          It’s open source, and doesn’t collect user data, and works in my opinion better than firefox+ublock on android

          On pc firefox+ublock is great, for now at least

  • summerof69@lemm.eeEnglish
    14·
    2 months ago

    If only there weren’t trying to make YouTube less usable. Currently if I listen to podcasts on YT and take a break, in a few hours it can completely forget that I was watching it, it’ll be gone from my watch history. This is so frustrating with 2-3 hours long videos.

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
    12·
    2 months ago

    Youtube alternatives like peertube need to get their act together and think about how to remunerate content creators. Ain’t nobody moving from youtube to peertube that wants to pay their bills with content creation. Nobody.

    Anti Commercial-AI license

    • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      Why should PeerTube bother with that though? We all know YouTubers won’t switch to it, infact, YouTubers will not use another platform ever.

      They could just upload their videos to multiple places, but they don’t. I think it’s clear that the vast majority doesn’t actually care about it. So what is the point of trying to appeal to them? They may as well priroritize their existing userbase, who are fedi hobbyists.

        • weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          What economic reality? Most of their income comes from sponsorship deals and Patreon subscriptions anyway. YouTube ad revenue is so unreliable that pretty much no content creator I follow considers it a primary way to make money. How could uploading your videos to other platforms in addition to YouTube have a negative impact on that?

    • Hanrahan@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Just no, please no, for the love of god no ? that way inevitability leads to enshitification. YT itself is a giant shitshow from decades past

  • Big_Bob [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    I’m currently using revanced to browse YouTube on my phone. No ads and it automatically skips over promotional parts in videos.