The YouTube app could finally get a sleep timer (APK teardown)
The YouTube app could finally get a sleep timer (APK teardown)
Loads of music and podcast apps have sleep timer functionality, and our teardown reveals YouTube could get the feature too.
The last thing you should be doing when going to bed is watching videos on your phone.
I totally get the intent of this message, but it's so beautifully reads both ways.
Schrödinger's comment
Lol, English is weird.
There are a lot of youtubers who make videos that target people who are sleeping with YouTube on. These long videos get recommended to them because they'll watch anything, ads and all, because they're asleep. The Spiffing Brit did a video talking about it. I think this feature might remove that meta.
Who is watching YT videos through this app? I occasionally run into it when clicking on a link on my phone, but I close it before the ads are through. Because it has become nearly as much ads as content, and is completely unbearable. If the video seem important or interesting, I may forward the link to my PC, where I can watch the video without ads.
Newpipe is the answer to have a Youtube app without ads and features like background play, download etc.
Who is watching YT videos through this app?
The general populace at large? The amount of ads getting plastered and blasted makes me cringe when I see the non-premium YouTube app. I use adblock and also have premium courtesy of YT music subscription so I'm immune for the most part.
But, non-techy people do not know addblock is an option and also prefer not paying for subscription.
Who is watching YT videos through this app?
99% of YouTube users.
Poor idiots.
In your case. Consider using newpipe, revanced, invidious or even firefox with ublock-origin. Also, disable the YouTube app to remove the app opening.
Grayjay ftw
God damn, just use LibreTube. It has a sleep timer, as well as many other advantages: No ads, no tracking, it uses the Piped API so you don't have to connect to Google servers, and it's fully open source and available on F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.github.libretube/
They're also on Mastodon and they even have a Lemmy community: !libretube@feddit.rocks
I wanted to use it back in the day, but most instances didn't load. Even less often then regular Piped for me. I'd imagine that this wouldn't be particularly improved now that YouTube's doing their whole "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" spiel
I've had issues with instances in the past too, but there's now a percentage next to each one displaying its uptime which I've found useful for stability.
It works pretty well for me. I don't have any problems on piped.video, piped.adminforge.de and piped.ngn.tf
You can also just disable the Piped proxy in the settings, effectively making it function like NewPipe
I don't think I realized f droid didn't need a rooted phone. Thanks for this comment!
The YouTube music app has one today.