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A list of Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) for Android – saving Freedom and Privacy.
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Add King Crimson (YouTube ad skip) #393

Closed sanjacob closed 2 weeks ago

sanjacob commented 1 month ago

King Crimson is a small service that auto-skips YouTube ads (on the browser). It relies on the media controls to do so rather than a VPN or a browser extension, which is desirable to some users.

While there a few YouTube clients on the list, as well as general ad blockers, this might be a good addition for people who already have DNS ad blocking but need a solution only for YouTube. I developed this for my own use (Graphene OS), but think there are some people who could find this useful as well.

You can find the app source here: https://github.com/sanjacob/KingCrimson Currently there is no F-Droid package, but in the future that may change.

Let me know what you think

offa commented 1 month ago

Thanks, your project sounds interesting! :+1:

Since it's quite new, I'd rather give it a little more time, since there's not much usage experience. Otherwise it looks good and promising.

Currently there is no F-Droid package, but in the future that may change.

You should deferentially consider this. As far as I can tell, it shouldn't be too complicated. Let me know if you need help here.

shuvashish76 commented 2 weeks ago

@sanjacob Requested at IzzyOnDroid. IzzyOnDroid, needs properly signed release build. Also please add Fastlane metadata for example see : AppManager.

For F-Droid see https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md

sanjacob commented 2 weeks ago

@shuvashish76 lately I have seen more variation in the way YouTube presents ads. While the app still stops 40%-60% of ads there are some which cannot be easily identified. So I'm holding back for now.