They’ve shown no shame in stepping up their ads in recent week, and it’s nearly every video at this point. Did you see the update to their terms? They gave themselves the right to put ads on anything they want. As an iOS user, it makes me think about Android again. The minimum seems to be two 5 second ads with one skippable after 5 seconds, but sometimes you don’t get the option to skip.
For screen off play, I use one of the good enough alternatives from the App Store. Musi is my preferred one, and while it has its own ads they are silent overlays so audio isn’t interrupted. Fine if you only use it to play audio based stuff. It did get a bit funky and try and force me to sign in to continue searching at one point, but that seems to have stopped for now.
There’s another one I have called Silence, but it’s shit. You’re constantly asked to support by paying by way of a full screen interruption, and the no option is “I don’t want to support the developers” as if it’s going to shame me into paying, and half the features and functionality is locked behind it, like Soundcloud support. Maybe I would if your progress marker wasn’t 1 pixel wide with no tolerance.
Maybe Epic will get Apple supporting external installation and I can have Vanced too.
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