Lmao that’ll be the day I finally stop using YouTube for good 

 Just say no. 

 No way... 

 I haven’t seen it in advertising, but I have seen eye tracking to ensure that attention is being paid to the right things. I’m sure it’s just a matter of time. 

Personally I’ll go to any lengths to avoid ads, up to and including just not consuming content. If I can’t block or ignore the ad, then the platform has no value to me. 

 Also, it's a matter of time that LCD Displays with advertising in the street/roads will use your location (from your phone) and tastes (from your social media) to show you personalized ads in big ass screens while you are walking or driving.

 

 I dunno, I use PipePipe in Android. 

 Almost every month I learn about a new version or fork of NewPipe. It's hard to keep up. 

 Why forks? Original NewPipe is decent?  

 I use Tubular that replace NewPipeXsponsor block which was a fork of NewPipe which add the skiping of sponsor content within the video itself. PipePipe looks like very similar.

But yes NewPipe is already good in most cases. 

 Yep, Google/Youtube is working hard to fuck adblockers and unofficial clients.

And devs have to keep to every change that brokes the normal functioning of the apps. 

 

 Not real (yet).. It's satire  

 Invidious, FreeTube, NewPipe, PipePipe, etc. And don't forget to tip your friendly open source software friends.