_They don't understand that we never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API._ is both funny and hardcore
I recently cancelled youtube premium due to the price increase. Invidious has been great to catch up on new videos from all my subbed channels. Sure It’s only at 720p. But i don’t have to see recommended videos cluttering up the main page or having to watch multiple non-skippable ads. I didn’t mind paying for premium family plan when it was $17/month. But the recent jump to $22 in a single increase is a bit much. At that price, it would cost me more than hulu and disney plus subscriptions combined.
The day YouTube incorporates something similar to sponsor block in YouTube premium will be the day that I actually buy YouTube premium. I think if YouTube premium advertises that they remove the ads, they should remove all of the ads including in video sponsors.
I mean honestly though. A while back I was deciding between getting youtube premium or spotify for music, and I was leaning towards youtube except for two things:
1) youtube was refusing to take my money. I don't have a credit card and youtube does not support any other payment methods.
2) youtube premium at the time would STILL show you ads. It just promised they would be "less frequent".
Does this mean the legal team do not understand tech? How come a company like Google/YouTube have no checks-balances when sending things like this? Or do the top-level not have powers over legal team?
There is also Piped [0] which is a direct alternative to Invidious.
It uses the NewPipeExtractor [1] from the NewPipe Android app [2] to contact YouTube.
not sure what backwards logic they are using to come to this conclusion, but its objectively wrong, and wont hold up in court. Granted, I am also guilty of this in my own project, but I dont pretend that I am not using the API, I just dont care because my project is tiny. They no longer have that luxury.
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1) youtube was refusing to take my money. I don't have a credit card and youtube does not support any other payment methods.
2) youtube premium at the time would STILL show you ads. It just promised they would be "less frequent".
[1] https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
Some instances offer DASH which gives you up to 4K depending your bandwidth IIRC.
Considering how they keep calling the random id number that identifies your video a "rolling cipher", of course they don't.
FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind.
- https://freetubeapp.io - https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
When in trouble, use nightly version (release is not frequent)
[0] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor [2] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
Wow. I didn't know such project even existed. I guess it's time to clone! Thanks Youtube! Also, you can pry our adblocks from our cold dead disks!
yeah, they DEFINITELY DO:
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/e7bed765/src/invidi...
not sure what backwards logic they are using to come to this conclusion, but its objectively wrong, and wont hold up in court. Granted, I am also guilty of this in my own project, but I dont pretend that I am not using the API, I just dont care because my project is tiny. They no longer have that luxury.