The Windows Phone user agent bypasses YouTube's annoying anti-ad-blocker pop-up.

Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.

  • RobaqueEnglish
    188·
    8 months ago

    Yes and no. Cool project but I gotta be honest I’m not a big fan of Louis Rossman / FUTO’s "open source but not free " stance.

    • Devouring@lemmy.worldEnglish
      214·
      8 months ago

      It’s open source and it’s free. You’re free to pay too if you want to support them. Software costs money.

      What Louis is protecting against in his license is repurposing the app with malware and ads like was repeatedly done with new pipe. Pick your poison.

        • Devouring@lemmy.worldEnglish
          21·
          8 months ago

          I’m not sure I understand your philosophy there or you’re joking. Why is GPL so important? Isn’t the purpose of open-source to validate that no funny business is happening?

          • NightAuthor@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            8 months ago

            That is a purpose of open source.

            First, I was wrong in linking libertarian with GPL, I was thinking of permissive licenses like MIT. GPL is a CopyLeft license, in that it forbids proprietization. MIT is more like, do whatever the hell you want, you just can’t sue me.

            The joke should have been “Libertarian MIT License or DIE!”

            I think MIT is actually a pretty rough license, because it allows someone to come along, take the open source work, add anything, or virtually nothing and then start selling it as their own while keeping any new code secret… when they got it for free. I’m mostly against that, but there are people who believe strongly in that type of license.

            I’m more in favor of GPL like licenses (not prescriptively, but preferentially) because they force the work and its derivatives to be shared by the community, for the work to continue to be open source.

      • RobaqueEnglish
        11·
        8 months ago

        I mean it’s not NewPipe’s fault that Google Play hosts malware.

        Based on what Louis Rossmann said it does seem the more restrictive licence comes from a place of good intentions:

        [11:19] If you download this application and you decide that you want to modify the source code so you can run a build that’s a little bit more amendable to your use case on your phone, we have no problem with that. However if you modify the source code of this application to insert advertisements trackers or malware in it and then try to redistribute our application with maare ads or trackers in it in a deceptive way we will come after you. That is why we have a license that is not as permissive as NewPipes’.

        But idk if that’s also what the license actually means legally-speaking. I’m no expert but section 4 seems pretty dubious:

        FUTO TEMPORARY LICENSE:

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