• UndeadFoodSnob
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    1631 year ago

    I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.

    • Doink
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      371 year ago

      I have been a premium user for years. Mostly because I was using Google music before. With all this crap they are pulling, I cancelled. I cannot support this anymore.

    • @[email protected]
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      201 year ago

      Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.

      • DuskyRo
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        71 year ago

        If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube…

        I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that’s life when you choose FOSS…

        • @Flying_Hellfish
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          41 year ago

          I’m not sure if this post was /s or not, but ViewTube is actually pretty easy to self host if you have a docker host in your current environment. They even provide a docker compose example on the wiki.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.

        • @[email protected]
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          21 year ago

          It does have it’s issues, can’t deny that. Can use LibreTube as Android app and 99.9% of my youtube viewing is on mobile

          • @Aermis
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            11 year ago

            How does libretube compare with revanced?

            • @[email protected]
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              11 year ago

              Libretube is a totally different app whereas Revanced is just some patches on top of the official YouTube app, so the feature sets are going to vary a lot between the two. Libretube doesn’t let you log in to a Google account at all (but it does support importing a subscription list).

              • @ElectricTrombone
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                21 year ago

                Any method for blocking ads / patching chromecast? My kids and I do the majority of our YT surfing from the couch.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 year ago

                  Not that I know of, sorry! It looks like third-party apps like Newpipe don’t support Chromecast :/

      • @Bernie_Sandals
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        21 year ago

        Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I’ve been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that’s stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.

        • @[email protected]
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          1 year ago

          I found this is good explanation: https://lemm.ee/comment/4966310

          LibreTube is on F-Droid for an Android app, pretty sure there is something for iOS as well but not sure. It hs its issues but I manage. Set up low tier patreon for some content creators from my “premium budget” too.

          • @Bernie_Sandals
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            That’s actually quite interesting, thank you, I’ll definitely have to look into that more

    • kubica
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      131 year ago

      It’s possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.

    • @zzzz
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      41 year ago

      *effect

      But, yes, me too.

    • meseek #2982
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      21 year ago

      I watch interesting vids people link back on occasion but have left it as a service I would browse and engage with and let me tell you, life got a lot better.