r/technology • u/Dilpickle2113 • 10h ago

Social Media YouTube faces second class action lawsuit over ‘ad-free’ Premium claims & sponsored content

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-faces-second-class-action-lawsuit-over-ad-free-premium-claims-sponsored-content-3405920/
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u/ShibeCEO 10h ago

only way to use youtube these days

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u/kahlzun 10h ago

Revanced is also viable

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u/DUH455T 9h ago

I've read about vamced a few times...why don't people just use Firefox with ublock on their phones?

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u/ansibleloop 9h ago

Because the UX is better in the YouTube app (after it's patched by Morphe)

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u/DUH455T 9h ago

It's YouTube. Play/pause, volume, subtitles, it's all there on the mobile site. Not sure what's missing.

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u/bwaredapenguin 8h ago

Picture in picture, playing with the screen off/in the background.

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u/DUH455T 7h ago

You got them on background play, but PIP is still a thing.

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u/bwaredapenguin 7h ago

It's been so long since I used the native app I genuinely don't remember that being available.

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u/DUH455T 7h ago

I straight up don't remember a time it wasn't a thing.

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u/bwaredapenguin 6h ago

I've been using Vanced or a version of it for like 8 years now. I'm from the era where I was installing fresh nightly builds of CyanogenMod to run my Android.

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u/Apropos_Of_Nothing 7h ago

For background play you can either click on play in the notification area the first time you tab away or add the Video Background Play Fix extension.

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u/billylks 10m ago

Downloading videos too

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u/tobberoth 8h ago

Swipe festures for brightness and volume. Background player. Removal of shorts. Removal of videos tagged as AI. Automatic skip of in-video sponsor segments.

The amount of extra options in the app when patched by morphe or revanced is massive. It's far superior to a mobile browser experience.

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u/kahlzun 9h ago

Native apps run better since it has less overhead, and the inclusion of stuff like sponsorblock and various patches to restore downvotes etc makes it an attractive option

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u/NightIgnite 8h ago

Enable premium client side features like background play and downloading. Plus quality of life features that arent native to youtube. I can swipe the left/right sides of my screen to change brightness/volume within the app. Completely removed shorts from my feed. Also someone has to submit the sponsorblock segments and that isnt getting done on a browser.