With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they’re doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn’t be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won’t be able to soon.

      • adibis@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Doesn’t work for a lot of accounts anymore. It plays one minute for me, first minute of a video and then dies.

        New account works. Incognito works.

        • Anders429@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          Fairly sure that’s a well-known issue. Not sure if it’s been fixed on new versions, but I think there are workarounds for it at least.

        • MetaCubed@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          1 year ago

          There’s a new patch for revanced which spoofs the client to fix this issue. Unfortunately it’s an optional patch that a lot of people miss, so they still have issues. I haven’t run into the “play a little bit then lock up” issue since the patch released

    • nudny ekscentryk@szmer.infoEnglish
      52·
      1 year ago

      it’s a common theory that the only reason they went after Vanced is because the Vanced team tried to monetize the mod by introducing NFTs

      • TwilightVulpine@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Many people in modding and fan communities convince themselves that companies only go after projects if they try to make money, but we also see that happening with free projects all the time, if they get enough attention.

        Seeing that Google is already sending warnings to people who try to watch YouTube with adblockers, I don’t think that’s what made the difference.

    • redditReallySucks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      They went after vanced because they made money (they tried selling nfts) from from modifying google’s proprietary code. NewPipe team wrote everything themselves and dont make money from google code (they probably make no money at all)