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YouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blocked (arstechnica.com)

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[–] obsolete@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 7 months ago

Never!

[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 6 points 7 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

The company shut down one of the most popular third-party apps, "YouTube Vanced," in 2022.

Vanced takes the official YouTube Android client and installs a duplicate, alternative version with a bunch of patches.

It also adds features the official app doesn't have, like additional themes and accessibility features, "repeat" and "dislike" buttons, and the ability to turn off addictive "suggestions" that appear all over the app.

Rather than going after the projects, Google says it's going to start disrupting users who are using these apps.

The company continues: "We want to emphasize that our terms don’t allow third-party apps to turn off ads because that prevents the creator from being rewarded for viewership, and Ads on YouTube help support creators and let billions of people around the world use the streaming service."

If you remember back to when Google aggressively fought to keep third-party YouTube apps off of Windows Phone, the company seemed to take a similar stance against all third-party YouTube clients, even if they wanted to integrate ads.

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[–] EverlastongOS@lemmy.ml 6 points 7 months ago (12 children)

Start to use other services like Odysee or Elacity Cinema...

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[–] GolfNovemberUniform@lemmy.ml 5 points 7 months ago

Will they actually be able to block users that watch it without logging in?

[–] moitoi@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 7 months ago

This is just ads. They know that people will fight back and found a solution.

They want some to think it's dead.

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