Why does the Youtube app come with games now?
@nixCraft Isn't all of YouTube gamify?
@nixCraft why do you keep using YouTube app?
@nixCraft As if YouTube Shorts is not enough, and now this!?
@nixCraft are there any in-app purchases from which they can take a cut?

@nixCraft You could switch to Newpipe, it's like YouTube premium without all the bloat and is free and open source.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

GitHub - TeamNewPipe/NewPipe: A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android. - TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

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@Rastal @nixCraft they are on iOS
@yuukayuuka @nixCraft No, Android only.
@Rastal @nixCraft I was saying, nixcraft was using iOS in that screenshot
@nixCraft What I find so infuriating is, that this obviously is geared towards younger people and kids. Its just there to keep them on this app as long as possible.
All possible consequences like addiction, mental health problems are ignored because it brings revenue.
Its comparable with those old tobacco commercials, just that the adults haven't yet realized they're hurting their kids allowing stuff like this to happen.
@nixCraft my Youtube ads only shows scams and false advertising sorry
@nixCraft more data points to scrape to create a better profile of you for the Googles advertising platform of course =D
@nixCraft anything to keep you in the platform and show you ads.

@nixCraft I was told it was a beta feature I had to opt-in to.

Played a couple, and they are "fine" if you just need to kill a couple of minutes without leaving the YT app / your YT tab.

@nixCraft Don't fool us, we can see a game with "play recently" on it 😜
@JohnPei of course I did, um you know for science 😂
@nixCraft Sh*t. I thought for a second I was getting ads on Mastodon.
@nixCraft so they can display ads to people paying to not have them.