2 hours… people pay for youtube?
… you know you can just block the ads, right?
… and you don’t need a propietary app to get youtube on a tv?
- happydoors@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
Anything people on iOS can do? Other than switch to a google phone
I use Brave browser which blocks yt ads. Demus app also works too and plays vids in background
- Sliversun@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
i had altstore with a modified youtube ios that had adblock and sponserblock. It was annoying to keep alive since altstore required a refresh every 7 days with a PC.
Currently I am using youtube on iOS safari with adblock extensions on safari and that does the trick for me.
Pro tip: if you want PiP on safari ios for youtube. You have to go fullscreen then swipe for Home Screen. That will also enable background play for safari iOS youtube. Otherwise YouTube script will pause the video.
- AvocadoCumToast@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Safari with WBlock extension, and SponsorBlock
Orion browser works too, I think it has Ublock Origin support
I’ve been having a few problems with playback on ReVanced recently; it tends to buffer for a minute and the quality seems to be stuck on 480p. Any workarounds mentioned didn’t work for long.
Desktop with uBlock has been fine though.
- iocase@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
Revanced is dying because OSumAtrix, the lead dev, is so toxic every other developer decided to hard fork revanced and make Morphe.
What’s really sad is Osum is copying code religiously from Morphe, including typos. They also forget to change function names or comments to go from Morphe to Revanced. As a result, Morphe DMCA’d him for not complying with the attribution clause of their GPL license.
It’s a whole mess but basically it’s one guy trying to replace dozens of contributors by copying code. He’s never going to sustain it like this, so just use Morphe honestly…
It’s updated daily (sometimes multiple times a day) and it seems like they can’t stop adding new QoL features to the patcher. Their patches work great, I highly recommend it.
Oh ok, thanks for that info. Already installed Morphe, let’s see how it is…
- Bruhh@lemmy.worldEnglish2 hours
You could try grayjay. Worked better for me than revanced but still had the occasional video not loading
Grayjay is great, I’m using it all the time on desktop. It couldn’t replace YouTube on mobile for me though, I need MicroG integration
Is there any reason to use ReVanced when you can browse YouTube on Android’s Firefox with uBlock Origin installed? It seems to work about the same but you can also run other extensions like DeArrow and Sponsor Block. It can even stream at 4k for some videos.
- madcaesar@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
Settings > Miscellaneous > Spoof video streams > Default client > VisionOS
Also make sure to clear app cache from time to time
Tried that, worked for a day or so and then it went back to buffering.
- Kcap@lemmy.worldEnglish1 hour
I had this issue, it was super annoying. I uninstalled and reinstalled with the latest update and everything worked great again and has been doing so for well over a year. I went down that rabbit hole of trying to update the spoofing settings per fuckyouspez threads and none of those recommendations ever worked for me. Hope this helps!
Gonna catch a lot of “get with the times” but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I’ve never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.
In addition to removing ads in YouTube, it also gives ad-free YouTube Music (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio). But honestly, the biggest problem is the app itself shoving shorts down your throat and lacking a bunch of features that third-party clients have. And even if you pay to remove ads from YouTube, you can’t pay to remove ads from the videos themselves. You can only do that with sponsorblock, which YouTube could totally just adopt if they wanted but as is, you have to use third part apps anyway.
- 6 hours
This is why they’re trying to lock down everything. Nerfing ad blockers in chrome, semi-banning all unapproved apps in Android.
And don’t get me started on smart TVs. They were broken right out of the gate.
- 3 hours
I’m still waiting for morphe to support other apps like instagram and tiktok (which I use for social obligations) before i move from revanced
- Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish4 hours
I genuinely think Morphe has been the worst user experience I have ever had.
I’m probably just unlucky or didn’t set something properly but I would say it’s very very frequent that the playback moves to random parts of the video. Like anytime anyway, the player will suddenly rewind to 10/20/30 mn before in the playback. It has been extremely infuriating. Even up to date and everything, it still does that constantly and has been for months. To the point I select videos in Morphe and then open them in pipepipe or Newpipe to properly watch them.
Again, I’m probably doing something wrong but I truly developed a pretty deep hate for Morphe.
I will again switch back to ReVanved and see if that works better but for me Morphe is extremely unreliable.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Brave’s native adblock has always worked really well for me. No add-ons required.
- Hogrider@lemmy.worldEnglish10 hours
I ended my Premium subscription about six months ago and instead got a VPN set to Albania. Ads? Gone. I live fucking with the google’s data harvesting operations
- W98BSoD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish4 hours
The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.
They exist; people just don’t take the time to figure it out and give an answer.
As much as I disagree with their practices, Brave browser on iOS will block YT ads.
- Scrollone@feddit.itEnglish6 hours
I don’t know about Apple TV. But for Android TV you can install SmartTube
- 8 hours
Or grayjay.app or Firefox with ublock origin or lots of ways that don’t involve giving Google money
- Lucky_Acid@lemmy.worldEnglish8 hours
I just installed ReVanced and it’s full of ads. How do I stop that?
- CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
Youtube already makes more money than Disney, right? So of course they ramp up prices. It‘s a successful product after all and the line must go up. The more money it makes the more expensive it‘ll get.
That‘s why you should never give them anything in the first place and use an Adblocker instead.
I would also recommend Sponsorblock because most Youtube sponsorships are overpriced garbage or complete scams. It honestly seems too good to be true but it‘s open source and apparently can cover operational costs on just donations. What I really like about Sponsorblock is how you can curate your experience to a T. It lets you skip all sort of content that you may not like such as self-promotions, credits, previews/flashbacks, intros, and more. It comes really close to the internet highways concept I have long only dreamed about where you‘re served exactly what you want and you don‘t need a silly AI agent to do any of it.
DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.
Youtube „Premium“ could never give you this experience for all the money in the world.
- 4 hours
DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.
I generally use YouTube without logging in on the PC and clean history every now and then. No matter which videos I watch first, the feed gets populated with such amount of garbage, that it kinda surprises me. Softcore porn, cop and gun shit, shitty political stuff, it’s flabbergasting.
- 11 hours
That’s what I use, but I thought it only worked on android TVs
On phone, I use revanced
- Sheep Herder@lemmy.worldEnglish11 hours
You could be right. I indeed use SmartTube on my TV. It’s my primary device for watching YouTube videos.
- apex32@lemmy.worldEnglish5 hours
It’s five additional accounts. Doesn’t matter their actual relation or location.
- Korhaka@sopuli.xyzEnglish3 hours
My family is bigger than that. Guess I will stick with piracy as it’s easier.
- 5 hours
Yes it does, if they’re not in the same geographical location, they kick the member off.
- 4 hours
Not for my account, never had an issue and users are located quite far apart.
- 2 hours
Unfortunately my mom all my friends got kicked off for not being in the same household.
It’s $3/month more than Spotify, and you get both music and videos. That doesn’t seem that bad to me? Tidal is probably a better deal though, since it’s cheaper and all plans come with lossless (FLAC).
I’ve been using a Plex server with my own ripped CDs for a while. Jellyfin is good too. If you listen to the same music a lot of the time, why pay a monthly fee when you can just buy the album once, rip it to your server, and listen to it forever?
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
I’m with you. I save copies of all my music files externally.
For those who still want to stream though, use Metrolist. Works exactly the same as Spotify and is a FOSS/No Ads product. I made a YT video about it recently.
- Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish4 hours
Hmm this is a bit of a silly question but does Metrolist require to have a YouTube Music Subscription?
I’m quite surprised the github page doesn’t mention that. It just says you have to be in a region where YT music is available.
- Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish4 hours
Thanks for the quick response!
Also is it possible to export your playlists in any way?
One of the ways Spotify keeps me “captive” is by making it difficult to export playlists so it makes migrating difficult.
So I would be tempted to move to another streaming platform but I would prefer to stay in control of my playlists.
Anyway, thanks for the suggestion, metrolist looks really neat.
- AvocadoCumToast@lemmy.zipEnglish2 hours
I know you can sign in with your youtube account. You might be able to port them to youtube music and then see them in metrolist if that makes sense.
- Tetsuo@jlai.luEnglish49 minutes
Now that I think about it, if the playlist are indeed stored on Google’s servers, I could probably also use google takeout to require my personnal data. It’s what pipepipe/newpipe uses to dump subscriptions from YT.
- FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Also is it possible to export your playlists in any way?
Apologies, but that one I don’t know.
Cheaper than spotify when you consider you get both YT Music and YT at the same time. So when you are watching YT you are not wasting money on music and when you are listening to music you ain’t wasting YT money.
Here in Latvia I pay 19.99€ (24$) for family plan, wouldn’t be a problem if they raised by couple euros. I’m getting price rises everywhere right now because of dram shortage. My hetzner vps got bumped up by 2€ because of dram
- 12 hours
I pretty much only use it for music, and most of the extensions have still gotten me by. At least long enough to rip the song to my hard drive for offline use. Fuck $16 a month. That’s ridiculous. For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit. After a year, not only would I be supporting the artists directly and avoiding paying paying a scummy company, I’d actually have some discographies built up to permanently show for it. They’re just inadvertently trying to support people sailing the high seas. So irritating…
For $16 I could get an album or two every month and not have to worry about some buffering bullshit
So why don’t you do that… ?
- 10 hours
I actually did just buy a lot of albums in the last 48 hours, once I realized that I could bc my tax return lol. Before that I was pretty broke and wishing I could actually buy some. A light bulb finally went off and I was like oh yeah, I got some money now :p I do like to test drive a lot to see if I really vibe with it also. if it’s something that actually touches me, I usually wind up wanting to have a higher quality version stored locally.
You can also set up a Jellyfin or Plex server and have your own streaming service :)
- 4 hours
I’d like to have some home network type of deal set up, I’ve been meaning to look into that. Self-hosting comm more. I don’t really have Internet right now though, aside from my cell phone, so I’m not sure if that would put a damper on things.
- 12 hours
How would someone, hypothetical, do that ripping part?
- 5 hours
Kind of janky but maybe something like this? https://soundclouddl.cc/ or something like this perhaps https://github.com/archisvaze/arcdlp if you just use a search engine to look up YouTube to MP3 or something to that nature you can find a lot of different results. I think they even make browser extensions as well.
- 4 hours
I’ll have to check this one out later, thanks for a recommendation!
For Soulseek you should use a VPN that support port forwarding. AirVPN is the one that’s usually recommended.
- 12 hours
I buy the discs from my disc shop then use soulseek to download the discs already ripped.
Other times I simply buy their discs from bandcamp so I get the digital files directly.
Neotube for music and revanced for videos are atill working the same.
