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YouTube Getting New Look, Video Player Improvements and Pinch to Zoom on iOS
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Whatever, just don't break picture-in-picture!
Creators on YouTube make more off of Premium users than users watching their ads. Using an app that removes ads is just hurting the creators directly.
He's saying he's supporting the creators directly (not through YT ADs or paying for YT Premium) -- nothing beats that
If the two options for a creator are:
1. User blocks ADs on my channel but pays me directly
2. User doesn't watch my content at all because they refuse to sit through ADs or to pay for YouTube Premium
I'm positive they'll take #1 all day long
There isn't a third option here of "user supports creator directly AND sits through ADs they don't like".
That user simply won't watch the creators content in this case.
Creators on YT make more money when I pay them directly instead of viewing ads. Read my last two sentences.
Please remove the double-tap to skip a chapter for christ's sake!
That text is a standard warning that extensions that can view and edit webpages have to include.
So why the warning that it can access my passwords, phone numbers, and credit card information? It wouldn’t have the warning if it wasn’t taking that info. My YouTube account and password is also my Google account and password. How is it gaining access to phone numbers and credit card information if it’s not accessing my Google account?
Not if they aren’t accessing that sort of information. I don’t think app developers are required to state, we may be able to access everything about your life as a general catch all. My understand is that it has to be specific to what the app can actually access. How does the app have the ability to access phone numbers and credit card information if doesn’t have access to my Google account?
Is there still no way to block YouTube ads on tvOS (besides Premium)?
I would think the only way would be something like a PiHole maybe?
(not even sure if that does it)
Every extension I have that modifies webpages has the same wording, including Noir, IINA, Velja, Honey, NetNewsWire, 1Password and DuckDuckGo. I think it's because you could be typing credit card information into a text field in Safari, and the extension could read it at that point. Not that it can look up what is on your accounts.
I saw these roll out on my friend's iPhone a week or so ago, but they haven't come to mine yet.
I wish the small number of older 1080p videos I uploaded a couple of years ago didn’t look so bad on a big screen. It seems you have to upload 4K videos which is what I do now to avoid videos that get compressed too much from YT.
Sure. But that is not sustainable unless you think a much larger percentage of viewers are going to do that. By using an app that is bypassing ads, you are actually hurting their analytics which likely results in them losing valuable ranking position.
A high percentage of users doing that for a specific channel likely hurts their ranking on Youtube and with advertisers (because of no click throughs). In the long run, you would be hurting their chances of sustaining their business on Youtube.
Yes, extensions can do that in general, but Vinegar is saying that it can access phone numbers and credit card information from the YouTube website. I don’t know anywhere on Youtube where a person may enter phone numbers or credit card information, so why disclose that as a possible risk? How is it possible for Vinegar to potentially access phone numbers and credit card information from the YouTube website alone?
As he wrote above in the post you're quoting "Every extension I have that modifies webpages has the same wording" It's boilerplate, same warning text every time. If you don't want to use it, don't use it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
