delete the app. Open your browser. Download an ad-blocker. Add the youtube homepage to whatever a phone’s desktop is called. Open a video, minimize the browser, and play audio from your notifications taskbar.
No more ads. No more needing the app to remain open to play audio.
Also you can buy Huawei phones from Newegg. The P50 is shiney if anyone wants to know.
NewPipe is also great but Google breaks its functionality regularly in an attempt to get viewers back onto the YouTube app.
isn’t there some kind of lawsuit regarding unfair practice like that? I can’t remember who’s suing google. I think maybe Rumble is.
I think the problem is that youtube is what it is because it was born near the birth of the popular internet and without an immediate profit incentive. Google is just an interloper who imposed itself on Youtube.
Yeah big tech feels sort of feudalistic because of reasons like this. Clearly there was a demand for a common space for people to upload and share videos on. Google ended up hogging up this space and you have to pay rent to them (in form of viewing ads, appeasing their algorithm, premium subscription, giving your data etc.).
I am not sure why alternatives are not able to catch on to a comparable degree to YouTube. I think it’s probably the capital backing that YouTube has from Google/Alphabet that allows it to subsume and outcompete.
isn’t there some kind of lawsuit regarding unfair practice like that?
Never heard of this. This is technically not unfair as YouTube has no obligation to not break NewPipe compatibility.
YouTube has no obligation to not break NewPipe compatibility.
No but google has an obligation to show more than youtube links in their search results. Especially since almost every google search alternative uses the google search engines infrastructure so that if google erases youtubes competition from their search results they erase them from almost every other search engines results.
I lost you there. Top level comment said that YouTube breaks NewPipe compatibility frequently to which you asked about a relevant lawsuit. I said there isn’t a lawsuit like that. What do Google search results have to do with that?
probably nothing, friend. I’m not familiar with NewPipe. Just that there is a lawsuit about competitive malpractice whose major complaint is as I said it above. If it relates to Newpipe or not I couldn’t say because I’m not familiar with it.
It could relate in so far as people being exposed to the existence of NewPipe in the first place. As far as compatibility issues likely it’s irrelevant.
My intention of the above post was to clarify the major complaint of the lawsuit
Edit: So top search result is from a year ago. The recent news regarding it was google losing its appeal to dismiss the suit. This leads to the discovery phase.
I can’t imagine there is any suit like that, as “piped” applications would be against one or another Google terms of service (another hegemonic corporate construct). If not the YouTube ToS then the Google Play/Android ToS. You can’t get piped apps on the Play store, you have to sideload a third party app store like F-Droid.
I think the burger problem is that there isn’t a genuine competitor to YouTube in most of the world. So Google can unilaterally decide what people see and how they should see it, and ostensible anti-trust consumer protections can be entirely ignored given the power Google has (wealth and imperial connections).
Best is newpipe with newpipe with sponsorblock. Its a full native android youtube / soundcloud player, that even blocks sponsors, can play in the background, and can let you download videos or the audio.
Thanks. I’m hearing a lot of people mention NewPipe. I’ll install it and try it out
and use an instance of invidious or piped
I cannot delete the application.
lol
I’ll use Firefox when YouTube Vanced isn’t working for some reason. I have an Ad Blocker but on Firefox I can’t install additional plugins anymore I don’t think for some reason.
Does P50 work with Verizon?
They gave a pamphlet with all the carriers it doesn’t work on. I don’t remember if Verizon was one of them. Call and ask if they support it. If they support an older generation they’ll support it.
I know cricket willfully refuses to allow certain phones on its network despite compatibility, but cricket is a shit provider I’ve stayed with out of habit more than loyalty, so it wasn’t an issue for me to switch to a network that was willing to do what I expected
