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Inb4 someone tells me to ad block and use different clients, I'm already using NewPipe on Android, SMTube on Linux, and uBlock Origin on web browsers. YouTube on Android doesn't support ad blocking without some very intrusive Xposed hooks that break every now and then, and most alternative clients don't allow me to show my appreciation for videos by liking them. So yeah.
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@dustypaws thanks! 😁
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@Condor forget about giving appreciation :3 they deserve it
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@Condor Maybe check out YouTube Vanced, it's a modified original YouTube client without ads and a ton of options.
You can log in and use it normally, just without ads and get a few more fun features. -
@PrivateGER Thanks for mentioning this! I've just checked it real quick on XDA and it seems really interesting. My phone's rooted but I am generally quite reluctant to give applications root access (for reasons that should be obvious). I'm not sure what advantages the rooted version offers that the non-root version doesn't? The XDA threads don't seem to be very clear about this.
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@Condor Isn't it essentially the same app, with some hosts entries?
also, non-root
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@xewl I have no idea to be honest.. hosts entries would be pain in the ass though, I'd much rather add those in my DNS server.
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@DarKneT I already have a DNS server.. guess I could add them in there. But the ad domains seem to change too often to my liking. For now I went with YouTube Vanced, and it seems to do the job well 🙂
Sometimes the answer is just ... savage.
This is how they prevent people from urinating in public in the Czech Republic.
YouTube. Hate and love for it just like I would for an abusive partner.
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Wanna build a website with Wix? Fuck no!
Wanna manage WordPress over SSH? Fuck no!
.. well I kind of do but a turd remains a turd regardless of how it's maintained. WordPress can go die from a torture as long as the time everyone has wasted on it loading already. So no, I don't give a flying fuck about WordPress' new interface.
Wanna buy a new Samsung phone despite just having bought a OnePlus already? YOUTUBE, HOW ABOUT YOU GO FUCK YOURSELF AND YOUR SHITTY ALGO?!!
Quality videos though, so many engineering videos and all for free. How amazing is that? I quite like them.
But if I try to like a video and particularly the fucking comments on it, don't you fucking dare putting your fat fingers 1 pixel next to the like button, because then obviously you want to reply to the comment and have a pop-up with the whole comment and all its replies, and an automatically popped up text input field, just so you have to tap back 2 times just to try liking the bloody comment again. Rinse and repeat that 2 times at best, 5 times at worst. What's not to like, right?!
God fucking dammit. At least now I know why those random mentions without any meaningful other text are there in most comment sections. Usability over 9000!!!
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