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Hopefully, SponsorBlock is included. The official YouTube app and the website are both plagued with sponsored segments. FOSS alternatives don't seem to support

Hopefully, SponsorBlock is included. The official YouTube app and the website are both plagued with sponsored segments. FOSS alternatives don't seem to support personalized feeds (although I may be mistaken).

joelthelion 3y ago
I've been using Firefox for Android with ublock and sponsor block for a few months. Works great!
rey0927 3y ago
use Youtube Revanced
SoftTalker 3y ago
I wish content creators would just briefly mention that sponsor links are in the video info and not spend minutes talking about it. I just double-tap-right/skip over that and it only serves to make me annoyed. I would actually be much more likely to at least glance at a written list of sponsors and info for a video that I liked.
- frfl 3y ago
  Lex Fridman does that basically, in the first 30 seconds, and mentions video info has full list. I mention Lex because that's the only example I can think of right now. Other's seem to go out of their way to embed sponsor reads within the video at random times.
nfriedly 3y ago
ReVanced patches the official YouTube app to remove ads, add SponsorBlock, enable background playback, and about a million other improvements. It can optionally hide shorts, comments, watermarks, and other stuff. It can remember the playback speed and enable speeds higher than 2X. It basically fixes everything but the recommendation algorithm. https://revanced.app/ https://revanced.app/ See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revance...
- antifa 3y ago
  Why is greater-than-2x playback such a popular feature? Seems kind of useless compared to audio boosting (to make YouTube videos play at the same volume as all other apps for Android) and 1.1x/1.2x/1.3x playback. 1.25x and 1.5x are often too fast for some videos.
  - nfriedly 3y ago
    1.5~2x is my normal speed, but sometimes someone just talks slow and I'll go up to 2.25 or even 2.5x. Other times it's a video I've seen before and I'm just trying to find a particular spot - then I might go as high to 3x. I'm not sure about audio boosting, but I know it does let you customize the speeds in the playback list. I got rid of everything below 1x, and you could add your 1.1/1.2/1.3 options.
k8svet 3y ago
NewPipe (the Sponsorblock fork) is open source with better UX than Revanced anyway. I cannot get over people seriously recommending using a hacked up, closed source app with access to your Google account. Beyond bananas.
- kaanyalova 3y ago
  Revanced is open-source. It patches the official YouTube app. MicroG which is used to access your account is also open-source. https://github.com/ReVanced https://github.com/ReVanced https://github.com/microg/GmsCore https://github.com/microg/GmsCore
  - k8svet 3y ago
    Still feels hacky to me, but I definitely rescind my earlier comments then. To be sure though, you're saying ReVanced patches out/around the builtin Google auth and uses GmsCore? So the user is presumably authing through microG? That actually seems... really reasonable, and makes me feel bad about the way I portrayed it.
nfriedly 3y ago
I went and checked the list - at the moment, SponsorBlock is not included: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=sponsorblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=sponsorbl... It is, however, in Iceraven's list: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/16201230/What-I-want-on-Fenix/?page=1&collection_sort=-popularity https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123... (And, of course, it works great in ReVanced or NewPipe x SponsorBlock.)

joelthelion 3y ago

I've been using Firefox for Android with ublock and sponsor block for a few months. Works great!

rey0927 3y ago

use Youtube Revanced

SoftTalker 3y ago

I wish content creators would just briefly mention that sponsor links are in the video info and not spend minutes talking about it. I just double-tap-right/skip over that and it only serves to make me annoyed. I would actually be much more likely to at least glance at a written list of sponsors and info for a video that I liked.

frfl 3y ago
Lex Fridman does that basically, in the first 30 seconds, and mentions video info has full list. I mention Lex because that's the only example I can think of right now. Other's seem to go out of their way to embed sponsor reads within the video at random times.

nfriedly 3y ago

ReVanced patches the official YouTube app to remove ads, add SponsorBlock, enable background playback, and about a million other improvements. It can optionally hide shorts, comments, watermarks, and other stuff. It can remember the playback speed and enable speeds higher than 2X. It basically fixes everything but the recommendation algorithm. https://revanced.app/ https://revanced.app/ See also: https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revanced_manager_guide_for_dummies/ https://www.reddit.com/r/revancedapp/comments/xlcny9/revance...

antifa 3y ago
Why is greater-than-2x playback such a popular feature? Seems kind of useless compared to audio boosting (to make YouTube videos play at the same volume as all other apps for Android) and 1.1x/1.2x/1.3x playback. 1.25x and 1.5x are often too fast for some videos.
- nfriedly 3y ago
  1.5~2x is my normal speed, but sometimes someone just talks slow and I'll go up to 2.25 or even 2.5x. Other times it's a video I've seen before and I'm just trying to find a particular spot - then I might go as high to 3x. I'm not sure about audio boosting, but I know it does let you customize the speeds in the playback list. I got rid of everything below 1x, and you could add your 1.1/1.2/1.3 options.

k8svet 3y ago

NewPipe (the Sponsorblock fork) is open source with better UX than Revanced anyway. I cannot get over people seriously recommending using a hacked up, closed source app with access to your Google account. Beyond bananas.

kaanyalova 3y ago
Revanced is open-source. It patches the official YouTube app. MicroG which is used to access your account is also open-source. https://github.com/ReVanced https://github.com/ReVanced https://github.com/microg/GmsCore https://github.com/microg/GmsCore
- k8svet 3y ago
  Still feels hacky to me, but I definitely rescind my earlier comments then. To be sure though, you're saying ReVanced patches out/around the builtin Google auth and uses GmsCore? So the user is presumably authing through microG? That actually seems... really reasonable, and makes me feel bad about the way I portrayed it.

nfriedly 3y ago

I went and checked the list - at the moment, SponsorBlock is not included: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=sponsorblock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/search/?q=sponsorbl... It is, however, in Iceraven's list: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/16201230/What-I-want-on-Fenix/?page=1&collection_sort=-popularity https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/collections/1620123... (And, of course, it works great in ReVanced or NewPipe x SponsorBlock.)