Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3

ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Chiarottide@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I’ve been using reVanced lately. It is a YouTube patcher, not a standalone application, but it’s good enough for me github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/

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  • ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That seems like a good solution for some people, but personally I would like to keep Google Play off my device unless I’m actually forced yo install it.

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    • defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.

      The original YouTube app that it’s pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.

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    • Chiarottide@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I don’t think it’s required actually, you just download the APK, patch it and then install it. I haven’t degoogled (yet) but there should be a patch that makes it independent from Google Play Services

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• defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.

  I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn’t require a phone number.

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• Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Doesn’t it? newpipe.net

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  • ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Every video fails to play, the only solution I’ve been recommended SK far is to disable my VPN but I don’t want to for privacy reasons.

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    • dontbelievethis@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Can you download the though?

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      • ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Nope. “Content unavailable” no matter what I do.

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    • Maxxie@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh, that’s cause YouTube is blocking a lot of unsigned requests (from non-logged users). I have my own VPN on a popular VM provider and it’s blocked too.

      Not really a newpipe fault, and not much to be done unfortunately.

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      • ter_maxima@jlai.lu ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I hope they will atop doing that eventually…

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    • EighteenthNerd@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Did you try switching your VPN to a different country? Mine nearly always fails when my VPN points at my home country. But it nearly always works when I connect to another.

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