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I can't wait for that platform to implode.

Well, I really hope that doesn’t affect Vinegar

( Safari extension that replaces YouTube’s horrible video player with the system’s default.

It’s great, it also allows you to force Best Quality, very useful on platforms where YouTube defaults to 480p for no reason like iPadOS )

Imagine buying premium to watch videos riddled with ads and sponsors in the video itself.

This format just isn't making any sense for me, they would've implemented something as sponsorblock years ago

Some of the youtube channels I watch also have channels on Peertube instances or on Odysee. Both options allow me to follow using RSS. I prefer my views to go to these platforms, so hopefully more content creators see these as viable hosts for their videos.

Peertube is also federated, so you can follow channels from your Mastodon account (and I think Lemmy too). You could also spin up your own instance if you like too.

They can try, but it is unlikley to work for long. So my general reaction is:

If they say like that, it means that's now is allowed to make a third party youtube client with login support?

I'd immediately install an officially sanctioned third party youtube app without shorts and without the algorithmic feed, if all i would need to do is let the phone play ads when i'm doing something else

Never!

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The company shut down one of the most popular third-party apps, "YouTube Vanced," in 2022.

Vanced takes the official YouTube Android client and installs a duplicate, alternative version with a bunch of patches.

It also adds features the official app doesn't have, like additional themes and accessibility features, "repeat" and "dislike" buttons, and the ability to turn off addictive "suggestions" that appear all over the app.

Rather than going after the projects, Google says it's going to start disrupting users who are using these apps.

The company continues: "We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service."

If you remember back to when Google aggressively fought to keep third-party YouTube apps off of Windows Phone, the company seemed to take a similar stance against all third-party YouTube clients, even if they wanted to integrate ads.

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