Nope. "Content unavailable" no matter what I do.

I hope they will atop doing that eventually...

I don't think it's required actually, you just download the APK, patch it and then install it. I haven't degoogled (yet) but there should be a patch that makes it independent from Google Play Services

The vast majority of people stick with defaults, no matter how shitty they are.

I started using PipePipe, which is a fork of NewPipe that allows for signing into a Google account to authenticate.

I create dummy Google accounts using an old Android phone, as that doesn't require a phone number.

IIRC Revanced uses its own microG fork.

The original YouTube app that it's pafching is obviously still proprietary, but all patches and the patcher are open source.

That sucks.

A thing you can do is change the endnode of your VPN. Some smaller countries are not blocked but your connection will be slower.

For a while a hammered the reconnect button until it worked but at this point I just went with split tunneling.

I think freetube let's you configure proxys. Maybe that could be another way to attack the problem

Watch time is pretty important on YouTube afaik, initial clocks themselves don't count for that much

There’s an example right in the article.

Historical events portrayed realistically is one.

the subscription feed still and always has completely bypasses Youtube’s recommended brainrot anyway

Though they are messing with that too, on mobile there is a "Most Relevant" section on top. Though thankfully they are videos from your subs.
...for now.

I have no idea what this vibe is, but I would like to subscribe.

But why?

Like sure some of the voices are not great but the words being said are the thing I’m interested in and not the person / machine saying the words.

Each to their own and all that, I’m just curious as to why you just stop watching something you were seemingly enjoying.

Which is the second most scary thing AI can do.

The first is realistic portrayal of faked current events.

Because it's a sign to me that the content creator is willing to take shortcuts and be lazy. In which case I take the shortcut to being too lazy to watch their "content".

Did you try switching your VPN to a different country? Mine nearly always fails when my VPN points at my home country. But it nearly always works when I connect to another.

Too bad this probably still won't drive people to other platforms.

Being a monopoly does that, yeah.

Hate slop, but I also approve of anything that makes it easier to wrest IPs away from Hollywood. Feeling conflicted and pessimistic.

I like to approach things in life with positive intent, so seeing a video with an AI voice to me would make me assume that perhaps they don’t have a great voice or that they have a stammer so so an Ai voice allows them to still make content they want to.

I find that life is a lot better if you assume the best in people rather than assume the worse. And I can tell you that since I’ve taken this approach I’m a much happier person and it’s extremely rare that I give positive intent to someone with bad intentions so worth it for less stress and worrying about things all the time.

Do you think the same of channels that pay someone else to be the face of the channel or is it just Ai voices you have issue with?

Me looking at your username