feat(YouTube - Hide ads): Hide YouTube featured section

[ILoveOpenSourceApplications]

Feature description

YouTube has this random recommendation that pop ups in home feed at times. Adding brand_video_singleton.eml should probably do it, as the section don't appear very often.

Motivation

It's either some content from YouTube's end or some promotion based content, also from YouTube. So it's better off hidden.

Acknowledgements

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[ILoveOpenSourceApplications]

Assumption made based on this.

12-13 00:58:19.149 16921 16921 D revanced: LithoFilterPatch: Searching ID: null Path: brand_video_singleton.eml|a2338bd59f2748a2|CellType|brand_promo_base.eml|c30e69acb8a6b839|ContainerType| BufferStrings: brand-promo-base-container-transition❙flexible_button.eml|24e539e5d128fe35❙brand_promo_base_button_transition_key❙button.eml|713fd10bcb423d23❙video_lockup_brand_video_singleton❙video_lockup.eml|9a58ef0afe85e2e4❙header_layout.eml|d7f521d4105fa2d2❙brand_promo.view❙Featured - Hit Pause. Beware of incomplete facts, understand the full information. - Before you believe any information, know a little more about it - Hit Pause. Beware of incomplete facts, understand the full information. ❙ 32 seconds ❙ Go to channel ❙ YouTube India Spotlight - 821K views - 2 months ago ❙ play video❙$67642dc8-0000-2371-a1ac-582429c745e0

[oSumAtrIX]

Looks about right

[ILoveOpenSourceApplications]

I think this can be added simply to the ads filter and perhaps not a dedicated patch?

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

Sure. What to call it?

Hide brand promotions?

[ILoveOpenSourceApplications]

If we are going with a dedicated toggle then Hide featured recommendation maybe? But is that needed? Why not add it to Hide general ads and be done with it?

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

YT might use this in the future for other purposes. There's not that many settings in the Ads menu and this isn't exactly the same as hiding ads for Temu.

'Hide featured recommendations' might be confused with hiding recommendations for 'real' videos.

Brand promotion is what YT seems to be calling it based on the component names.

Maybe Hide featured promotions?

[oSumAtrIX]

I think it makes sense to combine all ad toggles into one video and one other ads toggle. You wouldn't need anything in between

[ILoveOpenSourceApplications]

Maybe Hide featured promotions?

I'm fine with this.

I think it makes sense to combine all ad toggles into one video and one other ads toggle.

I'm confused? So, two toggles, one hiding video ads and the other hiding general UI ads?

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

there's already a few non video ads settings. I think most users rarely visit the ads setting page so having granularity or having only a few settings doesn't matter to them.

[LisoUseInAIKyrios]

Add it to general ads for now. If YT decides to use this feature for more than "always follow group think" public service messages then it can be broke out into its own setting.

[cyberboh]

Likely it its not an ad. From what i see, it just information from YouTube. Maybe information for new comer in YouTube.
For now, i don't see it in my YT app, could be A/B test or region based information.