It's not like you can learn from it (even if the topic is something you'll never use like a 2 hour dissertation on heat pumps or a multi-video series on how an old pinball machine uses only relays to calculate scores).

Why yes, I am subscribed to Technology Connections, how could you tell?

I subscribed to him as well. His Patreon is even better.

Why would anyone want to watch AI generated content? What's the point? I get using AI generation as a tool but if there's no human intention behind it, just a pure algorithm, why even bother?

If only NewPipe worked...

Sometimes I'll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching

The "Unhook" addon (increasingly required for Youtube now, in my opinion) will still completely block this as it blocks all shorts. Fuck shorts anyway. Also as TechnologyConnections pointed out in a recent video, the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube's recommended brainrot anyway and allows you to subscribe to and follow the creators and topics you actually care about. Until we have a viable alternative to Youtube (and hopefully stuff like this will drive that to happen sooner rather than later) the other option is to stick to subscriptions as much as possible and only subscribe to creators that don't abuse this or use shorts at all, preferably.

Sometimes I'll watch a video and as soon as I realize the voice is AI generated, I stop watching

If only NewPipe worked...

I've been using reVanced lately. It is a YouTube patcher, not a standalone application, but it's good enough for me
https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/

Doesn't it? https://newpipe.net/

Every video fails to play, the only solution I've been recommended SK far is to disable my VPN but I don't want to for privacy reasons.

Every video fails to play, the only solution I've been recommended SK far is to disable my VPN but I don't want to for privacy reasons.

"Creators led this revolution"

The same way cows lead a slaughterhouse.

Can you download the though?

Oh, that's cause YouTube is blocking a lot of unsigned requests (from non-logged users). I have my own VPN on a popular VM provider and it's blocked too.

Not really a newpipe fault, and not much to be done unfortunately.

That seems like a good solution for some people, but personally I would like to keep Google Play off my device unless I'm actually forced yo install it.