2016-02-24, 16:08
(2016-02-24, 05:26)smpn Wrote: I wish the YouTube plugin was maintained by the core devs, it's very important to many people... I hope it's under consideration
that'd indeed be nice, but i guess, they already have enough subjects to take care off - plus everybody should keep in mind, that this addon might always need a lot of caretaking, as it avoids YT's (aka google's) core business: ads... you all certainly recognized the ongoing discussions on ad blockers, which are contradictory not only to YT's business model but in the end also harm the content creators themselves and thus, us as the audience of all the free content. very complicated and ambigous siuation as also most content creators admit, that they don't like and being annoyed by ads themselves, but never the less existencially depend on this business model...
hence we will always face continous trouble with that kinda adons, as - very understandable from their point of view, but never the less being a major pain in the ass annoyingly ******** - YT & co will try to block out everything that avoids the core goal of their offer... see amazon prime - and that's even a service you definately have to pay for, which i don't have any problems with, even though the offered content mainly sucks to me... the amazon adon worked great - as well in OSMC as in MediaPortal and now? wtf did they close the API for generic client applications, where they even didn't lose money on blocked ads? other story on the lust of controlling everybody and everything... i'd also pay for the subscribed channels, if they are worth it - that might also step up the content's quality as a result of a reasonable (!) competition...
well anyways - i got a little bit off topic... sorry, but these interfering business models simply piss me off.. and i doubt, that this was the final fix as was stated some posts above
however: thanks for the work, which again is a free service to all of us...
regards
axel