I donât like having a google account that has google tracking any video I watch. Also⌠the recommendations are more addicting and with Tubular (NewPipe fork) and Freetube I just imported my subs and follow them a bit. Never had to deal with the shitty youtube website once.
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cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
i donât understand why people donât just use revanced and ublock?
timestatic@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
dai@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Youâre worried about Google watching what videos you watch, presumably while signed into your Google account on an android phone?
Unless youâre running Graphene that level of abstraction isnât much in their way.
tomatolung@sopuli.xyz â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
On LineageOS build with no Google Service, download using Tubular/NewPipe/Seal/etc. Play on VLC. Makes for a better privacy experience.
Lots of trouble to build, but worth it. The lack of spam and other spooky things is telling.
dai@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Thanks for giving further info, there are lots of people that want more privacy but are uninformed on the depths of whatâs required.
Iâm looking at moving to Graphene on my P7P but I donât have the time to spend migrating my data and losing access to my digital only debit cards among other things.
My server among many other services is running immich for photos, Syncthing + Keepass for passwords but there are many more services Iâll need to spin-up to feel at ease leaving the Google ecosystem.
Even Tailscale I want to migrate to Headscale / Netbird. Iâll eventually get everything where I want it but there are only so many hours in the day, and so much coffee and ritalin I can consume before itâs two sleeps to Christmas.
Itâs baffling even with something simple like a DNS ad blocker - the volume of communication from my partners Windows laptop, her iPhone and my Android phone being blocked with no loss of functionality. I donât want to look at wireguard.
timestatic@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I use /e/OS. Its an ungoogled android rom. Anyways, even if you use stock android privacy isnât black and white. Any bit of privacy you can bear to preserve is a step worth preserving. Theres a difference in google getting some of your data or all of your data. Stock youtube is also too much focused on retention maximation for me. I find some creators interesting but think the addictive nature of youtube is toxic
MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
With no Google account, on Cyanogenmod?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Never got revanced to work on my phone (in spite of reading all the documentation and online advice, doing literally everything that was supposed to make it work short of jail breaking or changing to Graphene) and as for ublock, I use it but I prefer YouTube on a dedicated client to a browser tab since I usually have far too many of the latter open at a timeâŚ
Besides, unlike revanced, NewPipe worked perfectly out of the box and it seems like PipePipe still does, soâŚ
Cyanogenmon@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâll just leave this here
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
have you tried revanced manager? i typically just download revanced manager, pop over to apkmirror and get the recommended version (in this case 19.43.41), downloading the v8 package, going back into revanced manager and clicking storage, selecting the apk, and then letting it run. if you select the custom branding patch you donât have to uninstall the original youtube.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
have you tried revanced manager
Yep. And if I hadnât, that would be the first advice the documentation would give me lol
typically just download revanced manager, pop over to apkmirror and get the recommended version (in this case 19.43.41), downloading the v8 package, going back into revanced manager and clicking storage, selecting the apk, and then letting it run. if you select the custom branding patch you donât have to uninstall the original youtube
Thatâs what I did, but it refused to patch. Tried every possible thing, but it just refused to work.
NewTube, on the other hand, worked perfectly immediately.
Dhs92@programming.dev â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
You sure you werenât downloading the APK bundle? Revanced canât patch those
Gestrid@lemmy.ca â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Did you make sure to turn on the âGmsCore Supportâ patch. (I think it used to be called âMicroG Supportâ.) You have to enable that patch on unrooted devices in order for the app to work.
And009@reddthat.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I remember revanced stopped working and I ended up getting premium because it wouldnât work on iPad anyway.
Are there any alternatives now?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Well Iâve been using NewPipe until the above incident and now Iâm trying out a fork of it called PipePipe. On my tv, Iâm using SmartTube
KingJalopy@lemm.ee â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I havenât had this issue with newpipe yet but maybe itâs because Iâm just watching video game facts and ROM hack videos for games Iâll never play.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
How does ravanced even work.
I mean, newpipe is just download install and it works.
Anyone have a tutorial?
(Also how would Revanced bypass age restricted if you need to sign in before youtube even sends the video over to you? Does Revanced use burner accounts like Aurora store?)
Pilferjinx@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I think revanced uses a modified patch of youtube spoofing premium. Iâm able to sign in using my regular account.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I wouldnât use regular account for any ToS breaking activities. I mean you can get banned.
mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Sign in using irregular accounts then??
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I like revanced but it is still the closed source YouTube client and I still donât know what it is doing. Plus you have to connect a Google account for some actions (like history).
TheBraveSirRobbin@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Would you be willing to share what youâre using? Either a response or a DM
VitabytesDev@feddit.nl â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I use NewPipe that also canât play age-restricted videos at the moment. I didnât say that I was using something that works, just that I donât trust revanced so much.
viking@infosec.pub â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Does revanced come with sponsorblock?
helloyanis@jlai.lu â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yes, it does!
umbrella@lemmy.ml â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
even if you do, youd need an account
Mandy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
My main problem is that freetube perfectly remembers video position, without fail.
YouTube always fails
dingus@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Weird. I donât have that problem.
Mandy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Some said it helps adding a tile to ublpfk, it didnât the only thing that helped was a plugin.
Than again, I could use a chromium browser for it, they seek to work better
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâve had the same problem, in my case it was that my adblocker was blocking the domains used to track video position, which are mildly tracking-ish in nature.
*.video-stats.l.google.com *.s.youtube.com
Mandy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Iâll look into if I have the rule already or not. Thanks
brb@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Pretty sure only s.youtube.com is needed. Itâs the only domain on my AdAway allow list and it works for me
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
iâll do some testing later myself, but thatâs good to know. i got those domains from random reddit threads after having had enough of the issue, and iâm pretty sure i tested if either one worked on its own but the memory is so fuzzy iâm just making up false memories. just a minute earlier i was convinced i didnât actually do any testing.
Mandy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
unfortunately, this rule had little to no impact on youtubes ability to remember video positions
baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
thatâs unfortunate. have you also tried removing the *. prefix?