• UndeadFoodSnob@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I dont believe this will have the desired affect Google thinks it will. I, personally, will never buy Premium or switch to Chrome without an AD block. If anything, I will just download via linux or just not watch Youtube anymore.

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      1 year ago

      That’s the fucking spirit. Here, I’m joining you. Fuck Google.

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      1 year ago

      I have been a premium user for years. Mostly because I was using Google music before. With all this crap they are pulling, I cancelled. I cannot support this anymore.

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      1 year ago

      Ever since I discovered Piped and LibreTube, I never looked back.And I used premium for years.

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        If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube…

        I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that’s life when you choose FOSS…

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        1 year ago

        Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.

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          1 year ago

          It does have it’s issues, can’t deny that. Can use LibreTube as Android app and 99.9% of my youtube viewing is on mobile

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              1 year ago

              Libretube is a totally different app whereas Revanced is just some patches on top of the official YouTube app, so the feature sets are going to vary a lot between the two. Libretube doesn’t let you log in to a Google account at all (but it does support importing a subscription list).

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        1 year ago

        Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I’ve been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that’s stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.

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          1 year ago

          I found this is good explanation:https://lemm.ee/comment/4966310

          LibreTube is on F-Droid for an Android app, pretty sure there is something for iOS as well but not sure. It hs its issues but I manage. Set up low tier patreon for some content creators from my “premium budget” too.

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      1 year ago

      It’s possibly dedicated to messing around for people testing firefox after the news.

    • meseek #2982@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      I watch interesting vids people link back on occasion but have left it as a service I would browse and engage with and let me tell you, life got a lot better.