YouTube goes for the jugular as it begins cracking down on third-party apps
    • @DarkNightoftheSoul@mander.xyzEnglish
      31•3 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
        6•3 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.

      • @sorghum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        4•3 months ago

        I remember when YouTube had background playback for free. An update broke it, then it was put behind a paywall.

  • @CaptObviousEnglish
    52•3 months ago

    Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.

    • TitouEnglish
      2•2 days ago

      Guess i’ll download all of my medias and put them on a hard drive

  • @SitD@feddit.deEnglish
    32•3 months ago

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

    • AditzuLEnglish
      9•3 months ago

      There was a different article earlier today and they were speaking about stuff like ReVanced and API access. Since new pipe has not agreed to the APIs terms and services, that means they should be safe

    • @shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      6•3 months ago

      You know what doesn’t suck?

      • Freetube on PC
      • Libretube on Android
      • SmartTube on AndroidTV

      I like revanced, but these are cooler :)

        • @burble@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3•3 months ago

          Eh. Mine freaks out and fails half the time I try to go full screen. And the frame rate seems like it gets awful randomly.

        • @shaytan@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2•3 months ago

          That works, but If you are okay with that experience, I encourage you even more to give libretube a try

          It’s open source, and doesn’t collect user data, and works in my opinion better than firefox+ublock on android

          On pc firefox+ublock is great, for now at least

  • @summerof69@lemm.eeEnglish
    14•3 months ago

    If only there weren’t trying to make YouTube less usable. Currently if I listen to podcasts on YT and take a break, in a few hours it can completely forget that I was watching it, it’ll be gone from my watch history. This is so frustrating with 2-3 hours long videos.

  • OnihikageEnglish
    9•3 months ago

    Grayjay still works? YT-DLP still works? I sleep.

    • @weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3•3 months ago

      Why should PeerTube bother with that though? We all know YouTubers won’t switch to it, infact, YouTubers will not use another platform ever.

      They could just upload their videos to multiple places, but they don’t. I think it’s clear that the vast majority doesn’t actually care about it. So what is the point of trying to appeal to them? They may as well priroritize their existing userbase, who are fedi hobbyists.

        • @weirdo_from_space@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          What economic reality? Most of their income comes from sponsorship deals and Patreon subscriptions anyway. YouTube ad revenue is so unreliable that pretty much no content creator I follow considers it a primary way to make money. How could uploading your videos to other platforms in addition to YouTube have a negative impact on that?

    • HanrahanEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      Just no, please no, for the love of god no ? that way inevitability leads to enshitification. YT itself is a giant shitshow from decades past

    • wolfshadowheart
      1•3 months ago

      I’ve been having issue with it the last couple days, but I also tend to just have issue with it overall lol