{"id":7146,"date":"2017-10-30T14:48:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T14:48:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2017-10-12T14:50:21","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T14:50:21","slug":"linked-the-end-of-protube-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/10\/30\/linked-the-end-of-protube-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Linked: &#8220;The End of ProTube 2&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jonasgessner.com\/protube2-statement.html\">via Jonas Gessner<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>YouTube first requested Apple to remove my app well over a year ago, initially just stating that my app violates their Terms of Service. This was a generic takedown request they sent to many YouTube apps at once. They later started going into more detail, even stating that I could not sell the app as that alone violates their ToS. They basically wanted me to remove every feature that made ProTube what it is \u2013 that includes the player itself that allows you to play 60fps videos, background playback, audio only mode and more. Without those features ProTube would not be any better than YouTube&#8217;s own app, and that is exactly what they want to achieve. YouTube wants to sell its $10\/month subscription service which offers many features that ProTube also offered for a lower one time price, so they started hunting down 3rd party YouTube apps on the App Store.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am a YouTube Red Subscriber but still preferred Jonas\u2019 application over YouTube\u2019s which continues to add more features I don\u2019t want like auto playing videos, cards, annotations, captions that seemingly turn out at random and recommendations that I don\u2019t care about. I hop onto YouTube to query a specific topic or video, not to check out mentally and consume whatever they\u2019ll play for me \u201ctheir lean-back experience\u201d<\/p>\n<p>ProTube was great for this.<\/p>\n<p>I was pretty upset when I I bought the iPhone 8 Plus and restored from the iCloud. I did this right after Apple released an updated version of iTunes that removed Local App installations during the restore process. Meaning, when my new iPhone was finished restoring from backup, Apple displayed the ProTube application on my SpringBoard but with a cloud download icon next to it. When I clicked the application, I was greeted with a notice that this application is no longer available on the app store and would be removed from my device. And like that, it was gone.<\/p>\n<p>An application I paid for just 6 months ago was ripped off of my iPhone w\/o my permission simply because I gave Apple $950 for a new iPhone and was forced to restore from iCloud because the functionality is gone completely from iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>They call this progress but I call it a kick in the Butt.<\/p>\n<p>Jonas, I\u2019m sorry YouTube bullied you but Apple has taken more control over our devices in the name of simplicity. It\u2019s truly a shame that the only reputable alternative to iOS is a Google owned operating system. More and more, I\u2019m just moving toward getting a flip-phone and walking away from mobile computing. It brings more trouble than its worth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Jonas Gessner: YouTube first requested Apple to remove my app well over a year ago, initially just&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","apple_news_api_created_at":"2017-10-30T14:49:50Z","apple_news_api_id":"c0ef0307-1d70-44b7-b819-79373c6c1994","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2017-10-30T14:49:52Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AwO8DBx1wRLe4GXk3PGwZlA","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"middle","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":["https:\/\/news-api.apple.com\/sections\/a6dbab72-c794-3987-8514-c419907b32a3"],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-linked","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-1Rg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7451,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2018\/05\/24\/linked-youtube-testing-non-chronological-video-order-in-subscription-feeds\/","url_meta":{"origin":7146,"position":0},"title":"Linked: &#8220;YouTube Testing Non-Chronological Video Order in Subscription Feeds&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"May 24, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"YouTube Testing Non-Chronological Video Order in Subscription Feeds for Some Users - Mac Rumors: Following in the footsteps of companies like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, YouTube this week confirmed that it is \"experimenting\" with a way to organize its users Subscription Feeds that removes reverse chronological order and uses algorithms\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":5188,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/11\/06\/linked-introducing-youtube-red\/","url_meta":{"origin":7146,"position":1},"title":"Linked: &#8220;Introducing YouTube Red&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 6, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"via YouTube: Ad-Free, Offline Viewing, Background Play I mostly care about the ad-free features which won\u2019t apply to paid subscription videos or content creators who choose to charge per video and not opt-in to the YouTube Red network. Obviously, in-video product placements will still exist. Zero adverts has me considering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Linked&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Linked","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/category\/linked\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":7150,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2017\/11\/01\/linked-80gb-archive-of-apple-videos\/","url_meta":{"origin":7146,"position":2},"title":"Linked: &#8220;80GB Archive of Apple Videos&#8221;","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"November 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"via Vice: Apple existed for 26 years before Sam Henri was born. 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