feat: (YT) Remove YouTube Stock Settings

[Francesco146]

Application

YouTube

Feature description

Remove this stock settings from the settings page (can't do that by a toggle, i get it. but a patch during compile time as I do that with ApkTool):

• Your data in YouTube
• Try experimental new features
• Purchases and memberships
• Billing & payments
• etc...

Motivation

Provides cleaner look to YouTube. Debloat the settings page.

Might work good along side to #28. also, might be a reasonable alternative to the extremist #22 .

Acknowledgements

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[MondayNitro]

which xml do you edit with apktoolm to remove those settings?

[Francesco146]

which xml do you edit with apktoolm to remove those settings?

I don't remember right now, should be in resources/[lang]-values. you could grep the text you are looking for, and get the file name that way

[Aryan-Chauhan]

Bro, meaning of " extremist #22 " ?

[Francesco146]

Bro, meaning of " extremist #22 " ?

don't take this as an offence, but that issue is trying to get right of all settings, that contains pretty useful tabs, not considering that even ReVanced's settings their self need those to work (e.g. the autoplay one). ReVanced is not handling all of these settings, for example:

• General
• Background
• Notifications
• ...

And it's good as it is, removing them is quite 'extremist', and would remove functionality to the final product. something in between would be preferable in my opinion

[selfmusing]

💀 That day isn't far when you guys will ask for a patch to remove YouTube from YouTube app 😭

[Francesco146]

💀 That day isn't far when you guys will ask for a patch to remove YouTube from YouTube app 😭

the ghostly [null] App :)

[Aryan-Chauhan]

Bro, meaning of " extremist #22 " ?

don't take this as an offence, but that issue is trying to get right of all settings, that contains pretty useful tabs, not considering that even ReVanced's settings their self need those to work (e.g. the autoplay one). ReVanced is not handling all of these settings, for example:

• General
• Background
• Notifications
• ...

And it's good as it is, removing them is quite 'extremist', and would remove functionality to the final product. something in between would be preferable in my opinion

Actually, I didn't ask for hiding all settings.

I asked for the "possibility" of hiding all of them "one-by-one". Just like "Hide Account Menu" feature where you have to type what you want to hide.

Similarly, if someone don't want to hide General, Autoplay, About, etc, then they simply won't type them in the proposed "Hide Settings Menu Components" feature.

[Francesco146]

I asked for the "possibility" of hiding all of them "one-by-one". Just like "Hide Account Menu" feature where you have to type what you want to hide.

my bad, that's not what I understood from your issue. just straight up think about how this patch could possibly be implemented. Then if that's what you meant, I'm agreeing with you.

Similarly, if someone don't want to hide General, Autoplay, About, etc, then they simply won't type them in the proposed "Hide Settings Menu Components" feature.

I'm fairly sure the goal you want to achieve is not possible with a Runtime patch, it should work with a compile time patch with some options in the json format.

[Aryan-Chauhan]

I asked for the "possibility" of hiding all of them "one-by-one". Just like "Hide Account Menu" feature where you have to type what you want to hide.

my bad, that's not what I understood from your issue. just straight up think about how this patch can possibly be implemented. Then if that's what you meant, I'm agreeing with you.

Similarly, if someone don't want to hide General, Autoplay, About, etc, then they simply won't type them in the proposed "Hide Settings Menu Components" feature.

I'm fairly sure the goal you want to achieve is not possible with a Runtime patch, it should work with a compile time patch with some options in the json format.

Yeah! Good point in your last line!

I have minimal coding knowledge, but even I guessed that it's not possible by some run-time modification (compile-time modification necessary).

[anddea]

Added in the latest dev.