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Makes phone feel slippery too, which make some feel like it'll pop out of my hands.

YouTube is unwatchable for me without sponsorblock so I've liked the newpipe forks that include. And on desktop I love freetube because it goes further and lets me block channels.

Freetube for desktop and newpipe for Android makes for a good time.

I default to safari with an adblocker for YouTube and bought the sponsorblock extension so can autoskip stuff too.

I don't watch twitch, but on F-droid for Android there is an app called twire that might be worth checking out.

Yeah paying to not have third party stores come pre-installed is the only thing I can recall for Google, which I never did have an issue with due to the worst thing about Android phones being the uninstallable bloatware installed on a system level that only lets you disable it and comes back after updates. If I want a third party store I prefer that I be the one to install it than the manufacturer forcing it on me, which has been the pro for Apple phones. But, then inability to side load like Android was a huge con.

Pixels and Oneplus hit the nice middle of ground being pretty clean and not having bunch of random third party stores like Samsung, but not being locked down like Apple.

Please provide a source on third party stores having been required to give Google a cut. Since threads like this suggest that it was not the case with Amazon providing apks that weren't published through the Google Play store that had no purchasing restrictions like the Kindle Google play version.

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/v3skd9/how_to_buy_books_from_kindle_on_android/

Only complaints I could recall over the years was that updates weren't an convient with it requiring manual approval for apps for third party stores.

You already could if you were willing to side load Amazon provided apk https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/v3skd9/how_to_buy_books_from_kindle_on_android/

This thread is from two years ago. So gives you an idea of how long this has been possible before any type of rulings.

Why when the Amazon app store is a third party installed apk. Can you find a me a source that Google takes a cut of the Apps sold through the Amazon app store, since I've been having trouble finding a source.

I only come across articles on Amazon app's dev revenue cut https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/17/amazons-appstore-lowers-its-cut-of-developer-revenue-for-small-businesses-adds-aws-credits/

Or examples of how Amazon gets around Google taking a cut of digital sales by blocking it from the Google Play version, but making it possible on Amazon provided apk

https://www.reddit.com/r/kindle/comments/v3skd9/how_to_buy_books_from_kindle_on_android/

Based on this it seems like Android has already had the ability for independent app stores to be run that don't need to pay Google a cut of sales for years.

I won't. Only third party stores I've had interest in have been F-droid for Foss apps which itself is already niche when it comes to people bothering to side load another store. Not sure how hard of a sell it is going to be to convince people to spend money on a third party store. At best I just see it for playing Fortnite.

Only way I see normal people trying it out is if Epic paid Facebook and Twitter a lot of money to only be available there.

Are you saying Amazon app store sideloaded on Android or Galaxy store was required to pay Google 30%? I was under the impression that only applied to apps on the Google Play store.

Egyptian Mouse Pounce is a pretty fun card game.