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how is this different from the Revanced Manager.
It’s where the main devs have gone now after Revanced banned the devs responsible for about 80% of the code.
Or just don’t use YouTube at all
Or I can pay for YouTube premium because I watch a tremendous amount of content on YouTube and it also supports all the creators I watch at least a little bit, so I don’t have to subscribe to 25 patreons
Agreed. It’s actually the only streaming service I subscribe to because I get so much use out of it and at least some of that money goes to actual creators. Plus, YouTube Music has an insane library of obscure shit.
Granted, I still use a few of those plugins, to improve the experience further.
Yeah I had the Google play subscription for years before it got grandfathered into the yt premium package. Its kept the same price over time so I’ve just never turned it off.
The nice thing about Patreon or donations is that even a one-time $1 donation (alternatively a one-month Patreon subscription at self-set price) is worth more than years of anything paid out by YouTube itself.
One shitty thing they’ve done that you can’t get around these methods is the new “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”. I’m not going to pay for premium just to prove that, but 99.9% sure that on many videos added before this was introduced they’ve degraded the base 1080p and the original is probably behind the new setting.
I hope I’m not right, but something tells me that the way it’s going, at one point they’ll only have 720p for non-premium.
You can use Invidious too
What about Grayjay? Haven’t seen that mentioned.
I forgot I had it installed. Pulls yt videos without delay, without ads.
I do have a vpn so could pop off to Albania but I’m unsure of there’s less revenue for yt by using grayjay?
STOP USING YOUTUBE. USE PEER TUBE.
If you are a content creator; especially a new creator, make peertube your default.
I’d love to see PeerTube get more use, but the one issue for creators is monetization. I don’t really see a great way for creators to make a decent income through PeerTube. We all hate the ads, but… That’s where a lot of their money comes from. Without a solution to that, creators are never going to embrace it, unfortunately.
There is buycoffie site to give donation to creators. Many yt creators dont get much money from yt ads cause they get demonetisation frequently.
But do things like that actually translate into respectable revenue? I understand that there are technically ways to get paid, but they only matter to creators if they actually fill their pockets.
The problem is nobody is crazy enough to host these much videos other than Google. Google wants to stay as a monopoly in long-form video sharing platforms and I don’t think Google is actually making much money in return comparing the cost if Petabytes of video files getting uploaded all the time.
Even after keeping a huge chunk of money that they get from advertisers, I still don’t think it’s that profitable but Somany people use YouTube and - they get to also stalk our online activity and do god knows what with allaaat data.
That’s a big part of what PeerTube tries to address. Yes, the videos still must be hosted somewhere, but PeerTube streams the video as a torrent where the host is the tracker and guaranteed seed while every client streaming the video is a torrent client that shares what it already has with every other active stream to reduce demand on the host. It’s not a perfect solution since the host must act as a guaranteed seeder, but for popular videos actively being streamed by many people at once, it has the potential to massively reduce traffic for those streams.
For less popular videos that may not have more than one viewer in any given moment, though, there’s likely no real impact. If it got some more development interest, I could see it getting archival clients that behave sort of like an *Arr server for media management, allowing users to save their favorite videos in exchange for acting as an extra seed over some longer term. That’d help, but it’s definitely not a full solution.
Why do y’all go with the absolute worst options to avoid YT ads?
Use NewPipe on Android. Use FreeTube on PC. Failing all those, use an invidious instance from any web browser that isn’t fucking Brave - I recommend inv.nadeko.net.
What’s wrong with Brave?
They keep doing shady shit. I was a Brave defender until I read all of that. At the end of the day, there is no shortage is Chromium browsers, so I might as well use one that doesn’t have this sketchy history. Like Ungoogled Chromium.
Brave is a web browser created by an add company with ties to Peter Thiel.
But if that’s not reason enough to avoid it, here are the three primary ones that come to mind:
- The only reason Brave exists is because Brendan Eich is a homophobic piece of shit who was ousted from Mozilla due to his active support for ending gay marriage in California.
- The privacy grift is a grift.
- The crypto scam.
For downloading on Android, i’d recommend Seal. It uses yt-dlp https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
Pinchflat into your media server and watch them later. Done.
Insane seeing SuperDicq on here
MPV too
I’ve never understood the hatred of shorts. They’re perfect for pooping time
I only dislike shorts because there are no player controls. I want to be able to rewind to any point of the video, pause at will, and adjust the volume independent of my phone/computer volume.
That’s why I downloaded the addon to redirect all YouTube shorts to the regular player so it forces all those features to be on.
The lack of player controls is 100% my biggest gripe as well
Please don’t poop in your shorts
It only takes one shart to never trust a fart again
If you put a dash after the T in the youtube url (ex: yout-ube) then it takes you to a version of the site with no ads. This only works on the browser version as far as I know.
Revanced
