Heads up; ads appear to be leaking into Smarttube. I just got a pop up ad (as in, an actual pop up). I’m on version 31.63.
Ad popped up in lower right hand corner while scrolling Recommended. Some kind of skin care thing.
I clicked disable - will see if that holds.
I expect this is fun and games on YTs end / will be patched out. But, if not, might be time to spin up Tube archivist.
I’d highly recommend giving TizenTube Cobalt a try. It’s really solid and I havent had any issues so far.
Is it possible it was your Goggle TV that showed the ad?
Hmm, no, I don’t think so. I don’t use Google TV front end at all; I use FLauncher. If FLauncher were somehow leaking ads, it would have popped up elsewhere.
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.
Are these youtube ads or are you saying the app itself is displaying the ad? No mention of it yet on github.
The app itself! Which is why I posted; I’ve never seen it do that before.
I’m aware SmartTube has some issues with malicious code injection some time ago; I don’t think that’s what’s happening here per se. Much more likely that m.youtube.com (which I believe is what SmartTube uses?) has found a way to start passing on ads.
I wish I’d grabbed a photo of it; instead, sat straight up in bed, said “What the fuck” and spooked the dog
Submitted ticket.
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.
Not sure. It’s my understanding that google has been playing whackamole with m.youtube.com for a while.
They’ve repeatedly made changes that break or affect unofficial clients. Maybe the next trick is to find a way to bypass standard adblockers.
Could just be me in a tin-foil hat moment but I wouldn’t put it past them.
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).
Interesting. I’ll keep an eye out for it.
Me too. Super frikken weird…but it does move my yl-dlp / Tube Archivist time-line up. It was always a matter of time; I’m surprised they’ve been able to play whack-a-mole for this long
Do you remember which video triggered the popup?
Ironically, a video on homelabs
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.
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Sounds very strange, maybe it’s something your TV did? Especially if you have a Samsung TV
