Pop up ads in SmartTube
from SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.world to selfhosted@lemmy.world on 01 May 10:04
https://lemmy.world/post/46307235

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Joelk111@lemmy.world on 01 May 10:47 next collapse

Tube Archivist is great, as long as you don’t mind waiting a bit to watch stuff. As far as I know Grayjay is still working fine.

darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 May 11:07 next collapse

Are these youtube ads or are you saying the app itself is displaying the ad? No mention of it yet on github.

[deleted] on 01 May 11:13 collapse

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darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 May 11:27 next collapse

Interesting. I’ll keep an eye out for it.

[deleted] on 01 May 11:28 collapse

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darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 May 12:18 collapse

Do you remember which video triggered the popup?

[deleted] on 02 May 07:37 collapse

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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 01 May 11:30 collapse

Much more likely that m.youtube.com (which I believe is what SmartTube uses?) has found a way to start passing on ads.

How could that happen without anyone implementing that into the app? At least it sounds like that’s what you’re arguing.

[deleted] on 01 May 11:40 collapse

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A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip on 02 May 01:02 collapse

Google has been playing whackamole with all alternative frontends for a long while.

But the result is never that ads just magically pop up in these alternative frontends, it’s that they stop working (and people quickly fix it).

dalakkin@lemmy.world on 01 May 13:21 next collapse

Sounds very strange, maybe it’s something your TV did? Especially if you have a Samsung TV

happypanda@lemmy.ca on 01 May 14:41 next collapse

Is it possible it was your Goggle TV that showed the ad?

[deleted] on 02 May 07:35 collapse

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Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.com on 01 May 16:03 next collapse

This also happens to me, using the Smarttube flatpak, I think that it’s a “feature” from the youtube tv original app, and it bleeds into Smarttube because what it does is faking being the original youtube tv app with some extra modifications.

Edit, I am using VacuumTube from flatpak, not Smarttube, but it’s the same concept.

[deleted] on 02 May 07:37 collapse

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imLotus@lemmy.ml on 02 May 04:47 collapse

I’d highly recommend giving TizenTube Cobalt a try. It’s really solid and I havent had any issues so far.