Working fine my friend.

Google-owned YouTube succeeded in shutting down the popular third-party YouTube Vanced app back in 2022

And 4 seconds later an alternative appeared.

It’s not even the first of April!

Bingo!

Yeah, or just install a custom launcher.

Get a custom launcher mate; I installed one the second my Shield started showing that bullshit a couple years ago.

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Currently using Wolf Launcher, has a clean simple grid of my apps and a wallpaper of my choosing, no bullshit.

Flashing is pretty easy, been doing it on my phones for years, but never saw the point on media players… Until now!

In the next 10yrs Google with force to watch a full screen ad or pay for an incoming call subscription to answer a call!

It real seems like a huge fuck you to the end users, I hope it’s just a tiny test case, or fake, because I really liked my Shield.

I’ve been running a custom launcher since the recommendation paid ads where introduced; maybe I’ll avoid these ads too.

I made jokes about Google adding full screen video ads when they introduced recommendations paid ads and I was laughed at.

So glad I ditched the stock launcher.

That’s extremely fucked up if true!

Guess I’ll be blowing the dust off my media PC if Google dare to do something so blatantly greedy.

“beer”

And in 5yrs you’ll have watch a fullscreen ad before you can reply to a message.

Can we please just have an app for our Android tablets?

Oh boy the reply-all-ers!

Can we swap quick reply for reply-all?

At least I know what they’re spending the 83% price increase on…

And, like Shorts, SmartTube will thankfully have an option to hide it.

I wouldn’t give Google $32.99/m for YouTube, no matter how slowly they increased the price, that’s utterly ridiculous.

I’ve used Curiosity Stream and Nebula before, would happily go back.