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Comment by vee-kay

5 hours ago

NewPipe (FOSS available on F-Droid) is nice alternative to ads-infested YouTube. I disabled YouTube and YouTube Music apps on my mobile, and I use NewPipe instead. You can even download YT videos or audio from YT videos using it.

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McDyver  4 hours ago

I'm using Pipepipe. I believe it's a fork from NewPipe, and has more features, namely skipping sponsor block, and intros

Grazester  3 hours ago

So entitled. How do you expect Google to pay it's content creators that you watch if they didn't have ads?

  • shakna  1 hour ago

    When Google's ads do all the following, I'll consider guilt:

    a) Don't throw malware in their ads.

    b) Don't throw seizure-inducing flashes in their ads.

    c) Allow turning off gambling in their ads.

  • mystifyingpoi  39 minutes ago

    I will be downvoted, but I'm not fooling myself. I don't care. As long as uBlock and yt-dlp still work, I'll use them. If Google breaks them, I'll resort to some automated screengrabbing + maybe some AI automation to click "skip" in a virtual machine or something.

    People will use all sorts of excuses, like the ads are about gambling, or contain viruses, or are detrimental to mental health, or whatever. No, don't use these excuses. You just don't want ads, and it is still possible to not see them. That's respectable.

  • StopDisinfo910  2 hours ago

    The issue is obviously one of trade-off.

    Google pays content creators so little they have all started including ads in their videos. Si technically as long as you are counted they get paid. Meanwhile, Google is more and more aggressive with their own ads interrupting videos and pushing you to subscribe to their expensive offer.

    Some people, like me, have just stopped watching YouTube. Other are turning to blocking ads.

    It's the usual tug of war between revenues and UX but I don't think consumers have to feel bad about not playing by Google's rules.

ycombinatrix  5 hours ago

I'm using Grayjay at the moment. Somehow still available in the play store (though with reduced feature set).