Go use NewPipe! Its Foss!
This article is pretty much an ad for Youtube Premium
But they’re just sharing the fact Youtube Premium™ offers a lot of people great benefits, like background play, and music!
I remember when YouTube had background playback for free. An update broke it, then it was put behind a paywall.
Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.
Guess i’ll download all of my medias and put them on a hard drive
thing is, i’d proboably have forked over the money for YouTube Premium by now if my only issue with the YouTube app was ads. its not. the app is genuinely unusable for me if I don’t apply the tweaks I need, especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.
rather than allow users to make these tweaks, google would go on a witch hunt for these apps because it would be unprofitable to allow users to avoid the brainrot that is Shorts, or the many another “features” they’ve bogged the app down with.
