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  • SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)

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  • Yeah that's true, I definitely don't think it would be the end of blocking ads on YT or anything crazy. Tbf I was just making the assumption that it would be pretty hard to decrypt the video streams if YT could just keep changing the decryption key every so often. Had no idea there were workarounds tho, thanks for the info at least!

    I shouldn't really be using YT with an account anyways, it's terrible for privacy/security to be using Google products in general. I'm gradually trying to break out of bad habits one service at a time. I just need to copy over all my playlists so I can start my little migration to FreeTube or something better.

  • Life's going down the ｔｏｉｌｅｔ

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  • Is this a shitpost

  • I miss it

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  • Yeah, 2016 was NOT good either.

  • When you know your boss is an insane moron

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  • "We are a team!"

    Oh fuck off with this fake ass BS, you clearly don't care about "the team".

  • SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)

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  • Yup that's why I liked it. I of course use Firefox with all the extensions too on the steamdeck as the other person mentioned, but it's just not as nice using a controller to browse sites as easily. You should check it out, you can even cast to it like a TV. VaccumTube works fine, see my edit. Just pray your account isn't a part of that experiment that encrypts all the video streams. Seems YT is trying to get really strict with adblockers.

  • SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)

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  • Oh no that works too. That's what I am using now and was using beforehand, but VaccumTube was nice because it had more controller friendly UI/Controls for the SteamDeck. Using a controller as a mouse cursor kinda sucks. Plus you could dock your steamdeck and cast from your phone. It was nice.

    Youtube artificially slows down the loading of videos on browsers like Firefox and especially for Ublock Origin users. I even get a little message saying "Experiencing issues? Find out why" and loading anything on the site takes longer. I even tested this theory by putting it in a fake virtual credit card and getting a free YT Premium trial. Magically the website is worked just fine on Firefox and the message no longer appeared... I refuse to pay Google though.

    It turns out my account was a part of some A/B testing "experiment" that makes ALL YouTube videos encrypted, so third party apps don't work. It wasn't VaccumTubes fault. The only way I could get around it was by switching accounts. It makes me worried that YouTube will go through with this "experiment" and screw over many other programs like the suggested FreeTube in the near future. They already use this encryption on the TV and Movies you can "watch free with ads" on YouTube. I guess YT wants to use it for normal videos too. Yikes.

  • SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)

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  • Thanks, will do!

  • SmartTube — an Open-Source Alternative to the Official YouTube App on Android TV (Security Update Included)

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  • I wish they made something for Linux. I just used something called "VacuumTube" so I can use it on my steam deck, but literally just today I'm locked out of using it now. It says some error about "the video file is encrypted and can't be played, try logging out" and now it doesn't work on my main YT account. Ugh ...

    Edit and a foreboding warning from my other comment:

    It turns out my account was a part of some A/B testing "experiment" that makes ALL YouTube videos encrypted, so third party apps don't work. It wasn't VaccumTubes fault. The only way I could get around it was by switching accounts. It makes me worried that YouTube will go through with this "experiment" and screw over many other programs like the suggested FreeTube in the near future. They already use this encryption on the TV and Movies you can "watch free with ads" on YouTube. I guess YT wants to use it for normal videos too. Yikes.

  • Imagine looking at the first picture and thinking thats something to be proud of , lol, its mental illness

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  • Disgusting highways and car exhaust fumes, gross no matter where you're from 🤢

  • Everyone Needs a Pint!

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  • I love the fediverse, no matter which way you choose to view it from. As long as PieFed and Lemmy users can see eachothers posts, I don't mind. The last thing we should be doing is dividing ourselves further.

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  • I hate being alone. :/

  • jobs rule

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  • Administering morphine.

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    Oh wow, Youtube has fucked up everything yet again and is now unusable...

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  • I can't download anything :/ I swear Newpipe only works like half time...

  • Was The Brave Little Toaster all that dark?

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  • I think of it as a darker movie compared to many other family type movies at least. I can't speak on how it is now that im older, but as a very young kid this movie made me cry. It was one of my earliest memories lol

    Also I know this may sound weird, but I'm pretty sure this movie also influenced me to care and have feelings towards inanimate objects.

  • I’m outta my depth

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  • And the evil bastards are cutting funding to mental health services when we need it the most...

  • Buttcoin

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  • Ah dude I completely feel your pain. I could have had a nice house and a nice life and now I'm stuck in a crappy home that is falling apart :(

    I liked the idea of a privacy focused currency, but at the time it wasn't accepted at any stores or really anywhere practical, so I didn't feel the need to hold onto it. It was very much considered a novelty.

  • Buttcoin

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  • I hate myself so much for not saving it when I was buying it at $150 when it was new. I just thought it was a cool and niche privacy currency that you could buy drugs with, not something normies would go crazy over...

  • Jensen Huang: Israel has become Nvidia’s second home

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  • Lisa Su, the CEO of AMD, is related to Jensen Huang; they are first cousins once removed. Hopefully she doesn't closely follow Jensen's beliefs, I just thought it was something worth mentioning.

  • thehe

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  • I know it's slower, less practical, or simply not possible, but I wish more emulators would let me use the original UI of the system that's being emulated instead of booting straight into the game. PCSX2 is one that comes to mind, I can choose to boot into the bios and hear all those nostalgic PlayStation 2 sounds again!

    I don't think switch emulators have this feature :(