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YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by 0nekoneko7 to c/technology

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The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I knew it was only a matter of time before alternative YouTube clients started getting banned. You can't "stick it to Google" while still relying on their servers to host the videos. We need to support Lemmy-like services that are distributed and host their own content and communities for video.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's peertube, right? A slight problem is that a lot of the popular content is only on YouTube for the money. Better patronage or sponsoring systems would help with that. For ones not in it for the money, knowing there's a solid service with community would probably suffice.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is more cntent than you hake time to watch. Look to peertube and suyport what is there.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to watch terrible content for the sake of watching terrible content.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not asking that. I'm asking you to find the good content when it is there and wetch that instead. I do watch youtube when I'm out of interesting things on peertube but peertube gets first obportunity for my eyes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

The only way to "support peertube by watching there" is to watch bad content.

There isn't any meaningful amount of good content there.

[–] Ginger666 3 points 2 months ago

Revanced still works fine for me Idk why people are losing their minds