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I've been using Altstore for a while. I just have a Windows VM on my existing Proxmox server running Altserver and never have to worry about it. My primary use-
by andrewmunsell 4y ago
I've been using Altstore for a while. I just have a Windows VM on my existing Proxmox server running Altserver and never have to worry about it. My primary use-case is a third party YouTube client that integrates ad blocking and SponsorBlock-- it saves me a huge amount of time and frustration when using YouTube.
Why not jailbreak? I want to remain on the latest iOS software, and generally speaking, hardware. Jailbreaking is just not an option for me if I want to stay up to date and I don't want to deal with tethered jailbreaks, which seem to be more common for the latest release versions.
- dewey 4y ago> it saves me a huge amount of time and frustration when using YouTube. It doesn't have "sponsor block" but it seems like a lot less of a hassle would be to use YouTube Premium. One of the few subscriptions I think are worth the money.
- HeavyFeather 4y agoI think PiP still doesn’t work in the app for me and sponsors aren’t blocked. I get less value from Premium than just SponsorBlock + YouTube PiP. I just have to deal with 720p videos though
- adzm 4y agoI love YouTube premium but the most frustrating thing is that there is no guest mode. You can go incognito but then there are ads. Which means my recommendations get messed up whenever people visit and play things on the TV!
- dewey 4y agoDoesn't the "Switch Account" feature do exactly that? If I use it I have the "default" YouTube recommendations that are not based on my main account but it still says YouTube Premium on the top and there's no ads.
- jonny_eh 4y agoTry creating a sub-account channel/brand account. e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBLBvY1Pw8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQBLBvY1Pw8
- dewey 4y agoYep, this is exactly what I'm doing and what the "Switch Account" feature uses. It should maybe be called "Switch Profile" as they are kinda tied together.
- firecall 4y agoThis is how I share with my kids at no extra cost! Gets a bit convoluted as they have their own gmail accounts as well. But it works :-) I still have my original Apple YouTube Red subscription active!
- TheSpiceIsLife 4y agoYou can remove, and pause, your watch history (YouTube desktop), and remove searches from your search history I don't know how much that effects recommendations, but Google support claims that's has an effect. Might be easier than the alternatives listed by sibling comments.
- londons_explore 4y agoYouTube recommendations are based on watch history (and a bit of extra info for each one, like how many seconds you watched of each video)
- sedatk 4y agoYouTube Premium is unreliable when you're traveling. I traveled to Turkey (which is in the list of Premium-compatible countries[1]) and ad-blocking stopped working with a notification (so it wasn't an accident/glitch). [1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en
- ghusto 4y agoYouTube Premium has the same problems that other legal means have; namely that it's much more hassle than the illegal methods of obtaining media. I travel outside of where it's "supported", or trigger their broken algorithms, and boom, it stops working. Meanwhile, my adblock software works 24/7.
- _cenw 4y agoI have no idea what you're talking about. I've been using YouTube Premium for several years, and this all sounds like made up scenarios to me.
- crazygringo 4y agoI was curious and Google is explicit about this: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en#zippy=%2Cpremium-memberships-travel%2Cpremium-memberships-available-locations https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?hl=en#zipp... Travel to any country where Premium isn't supported (about half the world's countries) and, bam, it shows ads again. Normally I can understand content licensing agreements per country, but that doesn't apply to YouTube mostly. So it seems like a real BS move indeed.
- oasisbob 4y agoFWIW, I've seen YT premium features geo-revert themselves while traveling, but ad display never reenables itself as far as I can tell. Downloading new videos is the one feature which usually goes away, though I remember embeds getting squirrelly too, but that may just be vanilla YouTube.
- kuschku 4y agoI do have youtube premium, but I still use modded clients just because even with YouTube Premium, the experience feels very sub-standard.
- Reason077 4y agoI’m tempted by YouTube Premium, but at £12/month in the UK it seems so expensive. Thats around double what I pay for Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, or Spotify! I also don’t really want to use ad blockers with YouTube, because I do want to support the small content creators I watch. But the volume of ads (and especially the unskippable ones!) is getting out of control at times, particularly in the app. If they brought out a “YouTube Premium lite” or whatever at £6 a month I’d be in.
- walthamstow 4y agoAssuming the creator has the option to do this, you would both be better off if you blocked YT ads and just sent them some money directly
- _cenw 4y agoThe YouTube Premium part paid out to creators (by proportional watchtime) is surprisingly high at 55%, especially if you consider that they use remainder to also pay for music licensing.
- ChildOfChaos 4y agoYou can get it pretty cheap using a VPN, I think to turkey?
- dewey 4y agoUse a VPN and sign up through Argentina. It's around £2/ month then, have been doing that for a year.
- yinka 4y agoI pay the equivalent of £2 every month for YouTube premium in the UK using a non-UK account. I don't feel guilty about this because I only want YT-Premium for blocking the ads, I don't need the music, videos etc that comes with it.
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- wintermutestwin 4y agoWe are already "paying" YT by giving them our data - why should we also pay for a subscription?
- dewey 4y agoSame way people pay for cable tv even if it has ads, because it gives them enough benefits to justify it.
- anaganisk 4y agoYou you ++ has sponsor block and feels most polished and feature rich(though it's just built on official client) even compared to revanced or official YouTube app. I use them both.
- ssbash 4y agoYou can get sponsor and ad free YouTube through the App Store. I prefer to avoid sideloading modified versions of the official iOS apps. That feels unsafe to run untrusted code, and I personally don’t want to review the code myself or build from source if that’s even possible. There is no need to fuss with all of that, when there are plenty of good options on the AppStore. Yatte [1] is a third party client built from scratch in swift ui. It can connect either Piped or Invidous servers. It’s available on all Apple platforms included tvOS. It runs way better than the official YouTube app. Safari Extensions - I prefer watching YouTube in the browser. These extensions are universal AppStore purchases and work just as well on mobile as they do on desktop Safari. Vinegar [2] is a Safari extension that blocks YouTube ads and replaces the player with the default WebKit html player. It makes using YouTube in the browser so much more tolerable. It’s helpful to have when you want to watch videos in 4K - something most Invidious or Piped servers struggle with. SponsorBlock [3] also has an official Safari extension available. [1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 [2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303229 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vinegar-tube-cleaner/id1591303... [3] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sponsorblock-for-youtube/id1573461917 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sponsorblock-for-youtube/id157...
- yurishimo 4y agoHow well do these apps work with livestreams? That's been YT's secret sauce for me personally. While their player isn't perfect, the way that YT handles livestreams is far and away its most valuable feature. No other platform will allow you to pause a stream, walk away for 2 hours, and come back and let you press play where you left off. On mobile and desktop, it works great. I've had more issues with the YT player on Apple TV but I don't tend to pause streams with that device.
- ssbash 4y agoVinegar has no issues with livestreams. I haven't tested Yattee, but it is being actively developed. Please report any bugs on the github page https://github.com/yattee/yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee
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- nraf 4y agoI have the same reservations around jailbreaking. My only requirement was the ability to disable YouTube Shorts (I find it excessively addictive), which you can't do in the official app. SponsorBlock, ad blocking and playing videos in background were happy surprises that have significantly improved my YouTube experience. I haven't had any major issue with AltStore. As long as I have the Mail/AltStore server app running on my Mac, it tends to just work. If I forgot to open Mail or AltStore after a restart, the apps stop working and I need to reinstall AltStore from my Mac, but it takes under 2 minutes and might happen a handful of times per year. That's less than the the time I'd waste on YT Shorts in a day.
- garbagewoman 4y agoHow was your experience doing this while being a premium subscriber?
- nraf 4y agoI'm not a premium subscriber
- bvoq 4y agodon't forget blocking youtube shorts
- hebrox 4y agoUsing Brave for watching YouTube also helps with this.
- anaganisk 4y agoAltstore can now be run on docker, running it on a PI right now.
- andrewmunsell 4y agoThanks, I'll have to try it out. I have a Kubernetes cluster running and it would save me a few resources to not have to run Windows just for this
- andix 4y agoYou can get YouTube premium. It’s ad free.
- TrickyRick 4y agoHardly, every other video is filled with "This video is sponsored by Shit Company X". This is what Sponsorblock solves.