Fucking bastards. I don’t even know what beef they have with the community and why, but using THAT method to get them to shut down is nothing short of despicable. What absolute scum.

Filter is not block though, if you open the instance on your browser, you still see them. Only if you actually block them, they are gone.

Yep, confirmed. Not working for me either in Beta 30.

I’m pretty sure they do it to fly under the radar, since mobile clients are far more dominant than smart TV applications.

And there’s also newpipe as an alternative to Vanced (or rather the other way around, I believe newpipe came earlier), and even a fork with sponsorblock integration. I personally vastly prefer them over vanced/revanced.

I’m using BubbleUPnp for screencasting.

You mean, only on Android TV. They don’t have a phone app, and explicitly stated they are not interested in developing one.

So that’s why you have 2 accounts ;-)

Awesome, in that case, good luck and all the best!!!

Man, that fucking sucks! Hope you’ll be able to score a new & better job soon though, regardless of savings!

I can’t tell, I have a youtube account.

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext is the only app you’ll need on a TV. It’s designed for it and fully syncs with your original youtube account.

Direct download: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext/releases/download/latest/smarttube_beta.apk

They have pirated apps? That’s news to me.

Didn’t you post it this morning already? I swear I’ve seen the exact same content earlier.

Sure. Foreigners aren’t really sanctioned though, that’s more of a risk for the locals. But even then usually only if they want to get someone disappeared and don’t have anything substantial against them.

Worse. They think it’s useful.

Then they’ll install the Linux version. People here are so indoctrinated, they like it.

That looks nice. I’ll check it out if I have some time later; though my written Chinese is fairly limited. So far the Windows keyboard layout did just fine.

I live in China and this software is cancerous not just in the encryption failure, it also nestles into a computer like a trojan. Creates 2 fallback installations and will reinstall itself after removal if you reboot in between, unless you get rid of all 3 installations at once, where they are deliberately trying to obfuscate the uninstall button (triple confirmation, swapping the confirm/cancel buttons and button background colors, etc.).

It’s a nasty piece of crap that come preloaded on any phone (android, at least) and Windows-PC here.

Neither of which supports Chinese, so that’s useless for any actual users of Sogou.

I believe the lemmy API only shows one or the other. Would be possible to combine it on the app, but not as a native function.