I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

    • Estebiu
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      103 months ago

      In the last few days it stopped working. Well, more like google maked it stop work.

      • tate
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        Google breaks Newpipe regularly, and then Newpipe always fixes it very fast. Sometimes I’ve been unable to use it for about two days or so. Totally worth it to not support Google.

        Check for updates within the app itself. Those are more current than the app stores.

        • @[email protected]
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          23 months ago

          So… I guess despite it’s name it doesn’t work based on Piped then? How does it work?

          • @[email protected]
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            Its the other way around. Piped uses the newpipe extractor iirc. As long as your newpipe is up to date, any breaking changes made by google are usually fixed in 1-2 days. For me newpipe (im actually using a fork called tubular which includes sponsorblock) is working right now tho.

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              Oh, interesting. Thanks for clarifying that. So in fact the Google crackdown was already worked around, it’s just Piped who needs to update stuff I guess

        • Estebiu
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          Yeah, I know it sometimes breaks and I’ve accepted that. But holy shit google, alternative frontend’ users are like .001% of your total users, are you sure you want to spend ressources on us instead of doing other things…?

    • @[email protected]
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      Thats a much higher hurdle for a noob tho. You either need to install fdroid or get the apk for that.

        • Reddit is better.
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          23 months ago

          I get nothing, maybe because it’s a brand account attached to a Google account. It doesn’t even have a password and it won’t let me add one 😂😭

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                Noooo, i meant as in “just typical behaviour for google”. I wasnt telling you to google it, lol as if google search could ever help anyone with anything…

          • @[email protected]
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            23 months ago

            maybe because it’s a brand account attached to a Google account

            That’s exactly why, actually. Your subscriptions are tied to the normal account, I actually had the exact same issue.

            You should be able to find a screen that lets you select between the two by clicking your avatar, I believe

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              There’s no sub file or folder when I do it that way.

              It doesn’t matter, I found one for another account and Newpipe didn’t do anything when I imported it.