I'm trying out nebula because I saw your suggestion and honestly a year for $60 isn't terrible at all. But I'm having trouble finding creators (not because the app isn't good but because it seems a lot of the channels I follow on YouTube aren't on Nebula. I have two devices open actively going down the list of channels I follow on YouTube trying to find channels I want to follow on Nebula and so far I am striking out pretty bad. I hope I can get half the creators I follow on Nebula because so far it's pretty decent from what I have seen. App is easy to navigate and pretty polished etc.

Is there a way to view who's on the service (creator wise) before paying for it? Because if not that's the major flaw with it.

I am not sure if it is possible, to be honest. I decided to move as I saw a lot of the YouTubers I follow do sponsored segments on nebula, so I knew I was going to find at least them in there. If I do find any kind of page or tool to find out I'll share it here

That explains the adblocker crackdown and enshittification of paid. Funnily enough, this pattern got me to block ads.

I seem to have the right stuff on my laptop, but not on my phone. When I play escape games on the phone I occasionally need a walkthrough video, so I'm switching between 3 apps: the game, my notes (a paint app) and the video. Walkthrough videos typically have an ad at the beginning and maybe one in the middle, and I don't mind watching 15-30 seconds of ads for the YouTuber's work.

This used to be pretty seamless, but a couple weeks ago something changed. When switching back to YouTube, it would not return me to the video but to the home screen. I have to go to "You" to get the video I was just watching, and when I click it it plays the ads again, then jumps to where I left off. So now every time I switch away I have to view an ads again when I switch back, which really sucks balls. I don't think the phone is running out of memory since other apps I have open switch right back to where they left off. So I'd love to get something that will skip all that.

You have to patch it yourself, sorry.

Youtube APK: https://www.apkmirror.com/wp-content/themes/APKMirror/download.php?id=8859989&key=ed463ff40f33fca91601472e78686e6bd92bf430&forcebaseapk=true (Download this)

ReVanced Manager: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager/releases/download/v1.24.0/revanced-manager-1.24.0.apk (Patch the Youtube APK with this)

I tried Nebula and it's nice, bit it's too US-centric (+ something from the UK)

Oh that's sad, it worked the last time I tried it but that was a few months ago.

They’re blocking it actively now. For me, it requires a tampermonkey script to bypass the blocker check in Firefox.

Newpipe seems to be working fine.

This is the most baffling feature ever. Why would anyone want to have titles translated? The video itself is not going to be translated! I guess it's because of these auto subtitles that are simply not that reliable nor do they make for a good viwing experience if you really don't know the language.

Even Youtube's algorithm already doesn't suggest videos from languages in which you don't search in! My youtube shows me stuff only in the languages I usually google with.

And the ads with this ai voice... Damn they are weird.

I would disagree, you’re still directly communicating with YouTube servers without a proxy in-between. Invidious or Piped are the proxies you need, they let you blend in with the other users of their services making data-collection on YouTube’s part difficult.

We need to make feeding the algorithm as difficult as possible.

I’m actually looking to start a YouTube channel, but I don’t know if I should even bother since YouTube seems to be going out of its way to try to kill itself

Revanced still working great for me.

I think playlet is what I used on roku. Not as nice as smarttube as you can't log in I don't think, but you can still subscribe and stuff, just doesn't transfer between devices. Personally didn't really use it, just set up for my wife.

AdNauseum. Not only does it block ads but it also fucks with advertisers by sending false clicks that cost them money.

You weren't blocking ads before?

There's some A/B testing going on, for sure. My ublock origin on Firefox has never had issues

Just cross post to a couple different hosters.

I'm grateful I have a job so I can afford premium

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