I just tried to look up a specific video of a Nick Swardson stand up bit. All I searched was “Nick Swardson loitering”. There were 5 fucking ads before an actual user posted video, then one real human posted video that barely had anything to do with Nick, then 5 more fucking ads.

I knew they were forcing ads into videos but clogging the entire search feed with ads is unfuckingbelievable.

Is this really what it’s come to? Ads are more important than what I’m actually looking for? Are people really okay with this?

  • tate@lemmy.sdf.org
    17·
    5 months ago

    Google breaks Newpipe regularly, and then Newpipe always fixes it very fast. Sometimes I’ve been unable to use it for about two days or so. Totally worth it to not support Google.

    Check for updates within the app itself. Those are more current than the app stores.

    • Estebiu@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      2·
      5 months ago

      Yeah, I know it sometimes breaks and I’ve accepted that. But holy shit google, alternative frontend’ users are like .001% of your total users, are you sure you want to spend ressources on us instead of doing other things…?

    • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      5 months ago

      So… I guess despite it’s name it doesn’t work based on Piped then? How does it work?

      • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de
        1·
        5 months ago

        Its the other way around. Piped uses the newpipe extractor iirc. As long as your newpipe is up to date, any breaking changes made by google are usually fixed in 1-2 days. For me newpipe (im actually using a fork called tubular which includes sponsorblock) is working right now tho.

        • illi@lemm.eeEnglish
          1·
          5 months ago

          Oh, interesting. Thanks for clarifying that. So in fact the Google crackdown was already worked around, it’s just Piped who needs to update stuff I guess