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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by Jenk on Saturday August 19, 2023 @06:38AM (#37187373)
NewPipe has that feature.

https://newpipe.net/

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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by xg15 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @08:35AM (#37188131)
That looks interesting. Thanks a lot!
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by Corsome on Saturday August 19, 2023 @02:39PM (#37191740)
I think you're using a copycat app from Play Store. It's not a real app which is only available through F-Droid.
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by xg15 on Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:03PM (#37193165)
Ah, that was probably it. Gotta admit, I deserved it then, for not reading carefully enough :)
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by pxc on Saturday August 19, 2023 @05:42PM (#37193557)
It's a sad state of affairs, NewPipe being forbidden from distribution because the ad company that owns YouTube also owns the platorm's app store, and the app store being full of scammy apps including clones and malicious forks of F/OSS. No one deserves to be presented with traps like that. :-\
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by chii on Saturday August 19, 2023 @11:55PM (#37195975)
No clearer evidence of monopoly harming the consumer than this!
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by pxc on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:48PM (#37192410)
Yeah that ain't Newpipe. Newpipe doesn't have ads.

Follow the link in GP.

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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by ddingus on Saturday August 19, 2023 @03:54PM (#37192474)
As mentioned, that's not the genuine app in my experience.
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by sverona on Saturday August 19, 2023 @04:13PM (#37192680)
The 403 error should be fixed in release 25.2.
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by kzhe on Monday August 21, 2023 @07:32AM (#37208088)
The ads are because you're some copy someone made of the FOSS app and added ads
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Re:YouTube no longer suggests videos if your ‘watch history’... by xg15 on Monday August 21, 2023 @07:37AM (#37208123)
Yep. Switched to the F-Droid version and now the ads are gone.

Also explains why the ads in the copycat version didn't integrate at all with playback controls or the rest of the app: Someone probably took the original apk, slapped the ads on as a separate thread/process inside the apk and never modified the app's original source.

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