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Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder (www.theregister.com)
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[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

BTW you can/should install an alternative YT frontend on smart TVs, if you want to watch YT and are forced to use a smart TV. Even something semi-suitable like Pipepipe will do, but there are also frontends more suited for TV use, e.g. SmartTube

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Interesting ! Thanks for the suggestion.

Although I usually have issues with third party clients all the time.

On Android for example I used the following clients so far :

  • Vanced YT
  • Revanced YT
  • Freetube
  • Newpipe
  • Morphe
  • Grayjay

All of them eventually failed or were down for extended durations. Point is, these third party apps are always vulnerable to YT purposefully sabotaging them.

But I will try it out anyway I don't have much to lose.

PS : Hmmm, on Smart Tube's Github :

My development environment was infected by unknown malicious software, as a result of which a few builds may have been affected. Once the issue was detected, I secured everything with a full disk wipe, restored a clean setup, and now all builds are scanned with VirusTotal. The F-Droid version will also be verified before release.

PS2 : My SmartTV is on WebOS, LG's proprietary OS...

[–] balsoft@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Well, yeah, the dev environment was compromised but the author restored everything and checked that it all works.

Personally I use Pipepipe and Outertube on my android phone, and just watch through a browser with adblock on my Linux phone. Although I don't watch youtube too often, especially on my phone (maybe twice a month or so), I didn't notice any issues with either of those methods, and never got any ads either.

[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 1 points 35 minutes ago

I'll be honest that's a bit of a red flag to me. Anyone can get hacked, sure, but we don't know what malware was shipped with the builds, we don't know what vector the hackers used to infect the builds.

So I'm not sure I would be willing to give my YT credentials in this context.

Anyway, since I have a WebOS TV :( I guess I will have to endure the official WebOS app for now...