dvdnet62@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish · 8 months agoYouTube puts third-party clients on notice: Show ads or get blockedarstechnica.comexternal-linkmessage-square282fedilinkarrow-up1432arrow-down19
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minus-squareShurimal@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up56·8 months agoThird party apps: “OK. We’ll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can’t find a workaround.”
minus-squareTheChargedCreeper864@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up4·8 months agoYears ago I used to use an app called “AdSkip” or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I’d imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·8 months agonot for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
minus-squarePika@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·8 months agoXtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
minus-squareAndromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-28 months agoYou can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect For Android, I recommend Xtra
minus-squareAlexWIWA@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·8 months agoI think YouTube wouldn’t care as long as they got paid
Third party apps: “OK. We’ll show ads. Muted. Behind a black overlay. If we really can’t find a workaround.”
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Years ago I used to use an app called “AdSkip” or something along those lines that used the accessibility API to automatically mute and skip all YouTube ads. I’d imagine the screen black-out would be trivial to add on top
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not for YouTube but there is for twitch yea
Please don’t leave me hanging.
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Xtra was one of them I used to use, but they have a bunch of different ad blocks that do it too now. Multistream services do it as well
You can use SafeTwitch with LibRedirect
For Android, I recommend Xtra
no need just yet, so im guessing no
I think YouTube wouldn’t care as long as they got paid