YouTube goes for the jugular as it begins cracking down on third-party apps
    • DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzEnglish
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      7 months ago

      But they’re just sharing the fact Youtube Premium™ offers a lot of people great benefits, like background play, and music!

      • bastardsheep@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        7 months ago

        Background play is bloody annoying if you don’t use YT for music. I prefer videos to stop when I switch apps, then resume when I switch back. Now they keep playing.

        And I’m starting to get recommendations of music that I can’t remove or tell it I’m not interested in.

  • thetaT [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    7 months ago

    thing is, i’d proboably have forked over the money for YouTube Premium by now if my only issue with the YouTube app was ads. its not. the app is genuinely unusable for me if I don’t apply the tweaks I need, especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.

    rather than allow users to make these tweaks, google would go on a witch hunt for these apps because it would be unprofitable to allow users to avoid the brainrot that is Shorts, or the many another “features” they’ve bogged the app down with.

    • KyuubiNoKitsune@kbin.social
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      7 months ago

      especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.

      Fucking hell man, it’s so annoying! Best is when you open the app and it automatically starts on the shorts tab blasting some insufferable video.

  • SitD@feddit.deEnglish
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    7 months ago

    when newpipe stops working I’ll stop using YouTube 😂 maybe my life will be better, who knows

  • onlinepersona@programming.devEnglish
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    7 months ago

    Youtube alternatives like peertube need to get their act together and think about how to remunerate content creators. Ain’t nobody moving from youtube to peertube that wants to pay their bills with content creation. Nobody.

    Anti Commercial-AI license