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NewPipe [1] is an open-source alternative, although latest versions of Vanced will supposedly keep working for the foreseeable future [2]. [1]: https://newpipe
by fuckcensorship 5y ago
NewPipe [1] is an open-source alternative, although latest versions of Vanced will supposedly keep working for the foreseeable future [2].
[1]: https://newpipe.net/ https://newpipe.net/
[2]: https://nitter.net/YTVanced/status/1503055442506915846#m https://nitter.net/YTVanced/status/1503055442506915846#m
- drewg123 5y agoAnd for AndroidTV devices, SmartTubeNext is awesome: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
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- tut-urut-utut 5y agoIt’s great, but I sorely miss my search history. I’m sick of typing the same search query again and again.
- adithyassekhar 5y agoThe official NewPipe client hasn't added support for sponsorblock, but there's a fork by polymorphicshade on GitHub. I can't add links because new account.
- Lammy 5y agoGot you https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe Easily installable through F-Droid by adding this repo: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshade.newpipe https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/org.polymorphicshad...
- sphars 5y agoI use NewPipe frequently. It's rumored that Vanced was sent a cease and desist (which seems pretty likely). Out of curiosity, what are the chances that NewPipe will face the same fate?
- adithyassekhar 5y agoLast I've heard they don't even use the YouTube APIs, just parses the website. So they're probably fine.
- rchaud 5y agoC&D is almost certainly what happened. The wording of the tweet makes that clear, as they aren't attributing it to something like someone leaving the team.
- andy_ppp 5y agoI find it so irritating that Google essentially exists as a giant scraping system and they have the legal ability to persecute anyone taking content hosted on their platforms. Hypocrisy should be a legal defence in my opinion, i.e. if you take public content and repurpose it for your own needs you shouldn’t be allowed to sue for the same reason.
- hyperhopper 5y agoThis is just about YouTube. What part of YouTube is scraping?
- yjftsjthsd-h 5y agoNot exactly "scraping", but YT became popular largely through hosting pirated content, which is close.
- andy_ppp 5y agoSo you’re saying it’s fine to be a hypocrite as long as the corporate structure absolves you of direct liability? As the sibling also points out, YouTube was directly founded on illegal content.
- rOOb85 5y agoIf I remember right, Vanced is the official YouTube app that was decompiled and modified. Where newpipe is an open source standalone app that uses no Google code or apis.
- reflexco 5y agoI would venture it's not going to be so hard for Google to detect and obsolete existing Vanced installations some way or another.
- Gareth321 5y agoThey'll just update an endpoint and break access. Integrations require constant maintenance because the big tech companies don't care much for legacy support. Well, any kind of support at all, really.
- R0b0t1 5y agoNewPipe has loads of random breakage. But as a plus, it doesn't need you to sign in. Despite my issues with needing to log in, seeing Vanced go is horrible. It is an insanely well put together app.
- metadat 5y agoSorry to shit on this, but NewPipe sucks. In my experience it's a waste of time to try and use it as a YT client replacement. It barely works, if at all. Casting definitely never ever worked for me, not even once. The user experience is unfamiliar and seems significantly worse than Vanced. Vanced is what the official youbutt app should've been. RIP.
- suetoniusp91 5y agoThis post glows
- mardifoufs 5y agoMaybe but Vanced was undeniably easier to use and transition to if you were used to the official app. I knew totally tech illiterate people using the app specifically because there was 0 difference with the official app. Once they just got it installed by someone they knew everything just worked and it was easy to update. Very very different from newpipe, which barely even has support for basic features like subscriptions.
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- 0des 5y agoThe people here don't use that term, and they aren't the type to accept it. You get what I mean? It's only associated with bad outcomes here.
- jesprenj 5y agoA great issue for me with NewPipe is the fact that it does not support signing into an account. The developers claim it's a feature that will not be implemented. Without the great music recommendation system I might as well just listen to my Jellyfin song collection. What value does YouTube even have without recommendations?
- mastazi 5y agoYeah NewPipe is a privacy oriented client, like FreeTube or Invidious or Piped, so I don't think they will ever implement sign in[1]. In this sense, NewPipe is not a Vanced replacement. [1] some of these clients have their own sign in, but you are not signing into your actual YouTube account and you don't get recommendations from YouTube.
- dirtyid 5y agoAt least for videos I use google spread sheet script to manage a bunch subscriptions into different private playlists accessible via sharelinks in Newpipe with psonsorblock. Allows me to keep things in sync with youtube account on other devices. https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist-2/issues https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist... Music I just use the default App and pay for the subscription.
- slenk 5y agoUpgrade to a YouTube Premium family plan for $14.99/mo and have no ads in YT either...
- chrysoprace 5y agoAs others have noted, NewPipe lacks a lot of functionality, polish, and just generally breaks far too frequently. I'm in the tech industry so I can deal with the app breaking occasionally, but during my stint using it, it was almost every month that it broke. My girlfriend who has some technical knowledge just gave up on it because it was too frustrating that it kept breaking, and not only that, the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoYou have to update it every quarter or so when yt breaks it. Never had any other issues.
- chrysoprace 5y agoI'm glad to hear your experience has been pleasant - ours has been far from it. Imagine telling someone who perhaps doesn't know what an "executible" is, to just allow unknown apps and go to a website and download a different app store (F-Droid), then go to that app store and download a third party app. Then when it breaks, tell them to go to GitHub and download another unknown app because the version on F-Droid gets updated too slowly when they just want to watch a video.
- mixmastamyk 5y agoI go to its page and click a button, then another to confirm. Definitely doable, if you're motivated.
- lolinder 5y ago> the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid. These days they just encourage you to add their repo to F-Droid. I set it up once and it just works now. I get updates as soon as they're available.
- heavyset_go 5y agoIt sometimes breaks because of changes on YouTube's end to prevent people from downloading videos or using 3rd party clients.