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.

  • Joelk111@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    17 hours ago

    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.

    • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      31·
      16 hours ago

      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.

      • A_norny_mousse@piefed.zipEnglish
        3·
        16 hours ago

        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.

        • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          16 hours ago

          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 a tin-foil hat moment but I wouldn’t put it past them.

        • SuspciousCarrot78@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          21·
          16 hours ago

          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

  • Trincapinones@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    11 hours ago

    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.