Google are trying their best to make YouTube unusable. They’re about to succeed.
thing is, i'd proboably have forked over the money for YouTube Premium by now if my only issue with the YouTube app was ads. its not. the app is genuinely unusable for me if I don't apply the tweaks I need, especially the one to disable Shorts functionality.
rather than allow users to make these tweaks, google would go on a witch hunt for these apps because it would be unprofitable to allow users to avoid the brainrot that is Shorts, or the many another "features" they've bogged the app down with.
Does the app let you change the playback speed to something rational like 0.9x, 1.1x, 1.2x, 1.3x? I've almost never found a video where 1.25x was the optimal listening speed. YT's default playback speeds are shit for accessibility.
unfortunately no, but you could implement it as a ReVanced patch if you really wanted this functionality.
edit: wait nvm its in the revanced settings, you can set whatever custom playback speeds you want to appear in the menu
The day Newpipe and all Inviduous instances die is the day I never use YouTube again.
I pay for YouTube premium but still use Revanced since the regular app sucks.
You know what doesn't suck?
- Freetube on PC
- Libretube on Android
- SmartTube on AndroidTV
I like revanced, but these are cooler :)
I'm currently using revanced to browse YouTube on my phone. No ads and it automatically skips over promotional parts in videos.
The simple fact is that YouTube just isn't good enough to pay the amount of money for that Google wants for it. Accordingly, if other ways to use it besides premium aren't available, I'll stop using it and recover some time in my day.
