Comment on Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone

• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Adblocking on mobile is much harder than adblocking on desktop, and if you’re in an emergency situation like the one described, you’re more likely on your phone.

  Personally I use ReVanced, which incorporates adblocking as well as giving you Premium features like background playing & PIP (while also keeping the benefits of being signed in to YT, like using your playlists, comments, etc.). But if I were an iPhone user I don’t know how I would watch YouTube.

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  • Rud_1UP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Revanced is complicated because you first need to find a compatible YouTube version (old version) and download it’s APK. Then, you need to uninstall YouTube, apply Revanced to the downloaded APK and then install it Only to discover the Cast button was removed by Revanced. When you start over, deselect “remove cast button from video player”, you still end up without it.

    I can’t even cast to SmartTubeNext on AndroidTV…

    Way too complex and too limiting for 99.99% of YouTube watchers.

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    • sandy_ravage@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Maybe NewPipe is something for you, as it has most of the features mentioned above and is easy to install via F-Droid. I’m using it for years now and really love it!

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      • Rud_1UP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        NewPipe does not have cast functionality and doesn’t include Sponsorblock.

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    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Not only do you need to do all that but sometimes it still doesn’t work. I get an error every time I try to patch the apk and it fails. I just gave up and went back to NewPipe. It’s not as feature rich but it works great for the one-off videos I watch.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      For sure, ReVanced is complicated. But that only serves to reinforce my point, which was that adblocking YouTube on mobile is hard. I only brought it up myself to stop people "um actually"ing me and pointing out that ReVanced exists.

      Then, you need to uninstall YouTube

      Fwiw, no you don’t. I have both ReVanced and the standard YouTube installed right now, precisely because of the casting issue you mentioned.

      My experience has been a little different though. Mine had the cast icon until I went in and specifically turned it off. Which I did because casting doesn’t work. It didn’t work for most of the life of the old YouTube Vanced either. Unfortunately it just seems like Chromecast compatibility is harder for them to replicate through the hacked YouTube client.

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    • Mr_Dr_Oink@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Your phone can cast its screen without youtube being part of it. Its not as smooth as you have to orientate your phone to landscape to match with your tv but it works without the need for a built in cast button.

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      • Rud_1UP@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        That’s not casting dude, you are describing screen mirroring, which is a completely different kind of experience. Why tf would you even do mirroring if you can simply cast. This is a really strange reply.

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      • Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Miracast isn’t supported on a lot of Android devices. Google naturally removed it in favor of their own Chromecast solution

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    • EqMinMax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Revanced has an app and works like ok.

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      • Jako301@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The only app revanced has is the “revanced manager”, any finished revanced youtube client you find online is done by a third party and is very risky to use.

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• TheFrirish@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  agreed but it’s still shocking to me how people put up with so many ads it’s absolutely indegestable.

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