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FYI, several alternative youtube frontend apps are available for "Chromecast with Google TV" (which is just an Android TV device), for instance the opensource

by phh 4y ago

FYI, several alternative youtube frontend apps are available for "Chromecast with Google TV" (which is just an Android TV device), for instance the opensource Newpipe. (Though this is piracy, and you shouldn't do piracy, because piracy hurts Google and content creators - who will gladly take donations -)

JulianWasTaken 4y ago
For Android TV, there's even the even nicer https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext which integrates SponsorBlock.
NoraCodes 4y ago
That is not piracy.
branon 4y ago
Accessing a publicly-available website using your preferred frontend application (NewPipe) is absolutely NOT piracy. Consider disregarding the future advice of whoever told you this. I believe this is a dangerous and misleading line of thinking.
- phh 4y ago
  Fun, I thought my sentence would trigger the pro-ad people, not the other side. I don't think there is any legal definition of "piracy" (except for ships). My own definition of piracy is "accessing content without paying the official fee". Here "official fee" is the ad. Also, it can be seen as equivalent to DDoS, since you are voluntarily using Google's cloud resources while breaching their EULA. Personally, when using newpipe, I do feel like I'm stealing unrightfully bandwidth from Google, though the price for that bandwidth is definitely not worth a tenth of the ads Google show me.
gadrev 4y ago
But you can't "cast" from Newpipe (you'd have cast the phone's screen and play stuff in Newpipe in your phone). Which anyways is what I do when I start getting too many ads (typically I just shutdown the TV and try to time turning it back on so the ad is finishing. it's something of a mini-game). EDIT: I'm referring to the original chromecast, not the new "Chromecast with Google TV"
- JulianWasTaken 4y ago
  You can use the regular YouTube app from your phone purely as a remote, and cast from it to SmartTubeNext on your TV.
- tomatotomato37 4y ago
  If you get some type of streaming box with an open version of Android TV you can just run Newpipe on the box. The most capable one is the Nvidia shield but for just running a YouTube client there are probably cheaper ones you can get off Alibaba or similar.

by phh 4y ago

JulianWasTaken 4y ago

For Android TV, there's even the even nicer https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext which integrates SponsorBlock.

NoraCodes 4y ago

That is not piracy.

branon 4y ago

Accessing a publicly-available website using your preferred frontend application (NewPipe) is absolutely NOT piracy. Consider disregarding the future advice of whoever told you this. I believe this is a dangerous and misleading line of thinking.

phh 4y ago
Fun, I thought my sentence would trigger the pro-ad people, not the other side. I don't think there is any legal definition of "piracy" (except for ships). My own definition of piracy is "accessing content without paying the official fee". Here "official fee" is the ad. Also, it can be seen as equivalent to DDoS, since you are voluntarily using Google's cloud resources while breaching their EULA. Personally, when using newpipe, I do feel like I'm stealing unrightfully bandwidth from Google, though the price for that bandwidth is definitely not worth a tenth of the ads Google show me.

gadrev 4y ago

But you can't "cast" from Newpipe (you'd have cast the phone's screen and play stuff in Newpipe in your phone). Which anyways is what I do when I start getting too many ads (typically I just shutdown the TV and try to time turning it back on so the ad is finishing. it's something of a mini-game). EDIT: I'm referring to the original chromecast, not the new "Chromecast with Google TV"

JulianWasTaken 4y ago
You can use the regular YouTube app from your phone purely as a remote, and cast from it to SmartTubeNext on your TV.
tomatotomato37 4y ago
If you get some type of streaming box with an open version of Android TV you can just run Newpipe on the box. The most capable one is the Nvidia shield but for just running a YouTube client there are probably cheaper ones you can get off Alibaba or similar.