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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker (www.businessinsider.com)
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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker::YouTube has been cracking down on people using ad blockers. Now, a spokesperson says that using ad blockers could lead to "suboptimal viewing."

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[–] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Loving Freetube, Newpipe, and Grayjay more and more every day!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    I thought All three of the ones I listed weren't reliant on YT APIs and instead scraped their content.

    Edit: Just confirmed both NewPipe and Freetube do not use YouTube's api. I'm not sure about GrayJay though.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    For android, the stock newpipe from the fdroid repositories was just download and play for me. Easy and simple interface.

    For Grayjay, I use the direct download .apk from their website. It's been a little more buggy because it's still new, but all in all quite stable. Less features right now, but does all the basics and has device casting to TV which Newpipe doesn't.

    For my PC, Freetube. I just use the Flatpak version for Linux. I'm on Nobara for my distro currently and it's worked fine.

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