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@electrineer I had hoped that paying customers get to enjoy a level of flexibility and configurability that's commeasurate with the price. We don't, so I'm done.
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@SidTheITGuy Oh neat, didn't notice the extra settings category, just kept looking in playback. Thanks! It's still jankier than newpipe but not significantly so.
Sometimes the answer is just ... savage.
This is how they prevent people from urinating in public in the Czech Republic.
It occurred to me that I'm making actual money now and I can pay for my shit, so I tried Youtube Premium, but their background play is poorly implemented and defaults to a floating window that I need to cancel in a finnicky, android-vendor-specific way. How do you consistently make something that much less usable than an unpaid open-source developer who also has to reverse-engineer your API and circumvent your anti-user-choice obfuscation measures? NewPipe would be a success if it could just play the videos in full screen with no controls, and yet it has a better background play story than the actual provider. Fuck centralised software
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