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YouTube is finally cracking down on third-party apps that enable ad-blocking (alternativeto.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 0nekoneko7@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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The company's team clarified that their terms prohibit third-party apps from disabling ads, as it denies creators their due reward for viewership. Although the announcement did not specify any app by name, it's plausible to presume that third-party YouTube apps such as NewPipe, YouTube ReVanced, Piped, and others might be implicated.

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[–] 9tr6gyp3@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (56 children)

Get off of Chrome

Get off of YouTube

Get off of gmail

Get off of Google

Theres a whole big internet out there. You don't have to limit yourself to one single company.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (12 children)

Getting off youtube is pretty difficult with no true alternative.

You forgot to add get off Android, which would also mean just going Apple. There is no good alternative there either.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube is not a mandatory necessity. We live in a world of infinite sources of recreation. Get off YouTube has absolutely no requirement for an alternative to exist. Like alcohol, music, books, or whatever, you can only just not do it.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Youtube is a fantastic learning tool for diy, how to vids, reviews, education, etc. The lost goes on, and yea it has crap too, but there's so much use for it in every day life also. Brushing it off would be literally like saying "dlstay away from books, there's so many other things you could be looking at".

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's more like saying, "stay away from that particular publisher, because it's abusive to the authors and steals from the readers".

I do agree that I could look to so many thongs.

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