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NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android
- _ahxg 3y agoAmazing app, I hope it will last for a long time.
- kosolam 3y agoYes! Awesome app
- scosman 3y agoFor iOS users, check out “yattee” for a similar setup
- comprev 3y ago"musi" is also a great advert-free YouTube client for iOS.
- tomrod 3y agoHighly recommend using F-Droid-capable phones/mobile support systems. Perhaps one day the iOS ecosystem will recognize the economic value of democratizing the platform, but until that day it's better to use open source software and as open of hardware as possible.
- alwayslikethis 3y agoI think they are going to be forced to open the platform soon, per the new Digital Markets Act by the EU.
- tomrod 3y agoOnce again, the EU does something right for it's citizens in the face of exploitative practices.
- jrflowers 3y agoThis is good advice. If you own an iOS device you should consider not owning an iOS device.
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- rplnt 3y agoI would love not to, but there is not a single human-sized (as in can be operated by human hand) android phone on the market that is also not a slow budget ohone. Now there is no iphone either, but the last minis should last a while.
- tomrod 3y agoApple's moving away from them as well, to the detriment of their design edge. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23868428/iphone-13-mini-lineup-discontinued-apple-event https://www.theverge.com/2023/9/12/23868428/iphone-13-mini-l...
- sneak 3y agoAs a long time iOS user, I used a Pixel with Graphene for a whole year. Android has so many rough edges, and the Pixel hardware is still a few years behind the iPhone. I switched back. I miss syncthing and being able to install the apps that I want, but my phone is too important a device for rough edges.
- lrvick 3y agoGrapheneOS did not meet my needs for sovereign control of my own device, and iOS is worse in this regard, so I gave up cell phones entirely 2 years ago. Turns out they are not as necessary as we convince ourselves they are.
- crashmat 3y agoInteresting. I'd never used an android before, and recently got a Pixel 7a on which I am running lineageos. Haven't found any rough edges other than that the home screen sometimes hangs fixed by turning the screen off and on again which takes less than 5s. What rough edges did you encounter?
- hxii 3y agoThe parent comment was a suggestion for an iOS alternative. Why did you feel the urge to push unsolicited advice? I honestly don’t get it.
- tomrod 3y agoCurrently, iOS is a substandard platform for software freedom. While it has done a fairly decent job implementing a good user interface, it comes at the cost of freedom on mobile devices, leaving users and developers to the capricious whims of a single company. When that company decides to break encryption for any external group, is eventually hacked, or other myriad of other single single failure node situations occur, the collateral damage is massive.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoMobian et al is the alternative, not surveillanceOS.
- davkan 3y agoYou can also use altstore to sideload uyou+.
- pzmarzly 3y agoI am very happy with Vinegar for Safari - a simple adblock + PiP + background play extension
- riku_iki 3y agoNo mentions about ads?..
- spuz 3y agoThe site mentions: "without annoying ads"
- BuildTheRobots 3y agoNo ads. Also play in background or popout window. GrayJay is a new contender on the block that might be worth looking at too.
- wkat4242 3y agoIndeed but that also lacks sponsorblock :(
- g-b-r 3y agoJust be careful that there are many clones filled with ads and sh*t on the Play Store; Play Store where they, the real app, cannot be
- Nux 3y agoShhhhht!
- OldGuyInTheClub 3y agoMy first install on getting a new phone.
- gala8y 3y agoMy first install on every phone of any friend who wants this after a short pitch.
- jaquesy 3y agoI've been using this for years to download YouTube videos when I go on trips, it makes it super easy since you can just share the link directly from YouTube to NewPipe and it'll pop up a neat download UI to select quality and threads to use. Really great app for that purpose, although I will say I just used ReVanced for general YouTube browsing on my phone.
- chii 3y agoI believe the one thing i see lacking for newpipe is viewing livestreams. Revanced is the way to go for a good youtube experience, but i use newpipe for downloading and saving a video offline.
- autoexec 3y agoI've watched livestreams in newpipe. A few hours after it ended I used new pipe again to download the whole thing to see the parts I missed (new pipe wouldn't let me rewind to the start of the livestream after I joined)
- 1una 3y agov0.26.0 (the next release) should support viewing livestreams. See https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10471 https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/10471
- pmontra 3y agoI can view live streams in NewPipe 0.25.2 and I think I airways did. This is a live stream I just watched to check that it works https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydYDqZQpim8 It's a water pool in the Namib desert, so safe for work
- argiopetech 3y agoConfirmed, with seeking. There were times in the past where this was not the case, but it was likely 0.24 or before.
- DrNosferatu 3y agoAlso, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
- seqizz 3y agoYeah this is an absolute gem. Sad that original NewPipe didn't include the functionality, even optionally.
- micw 3y agoHonestly, I do not understand why one should use this. I have recently seen some high quality YT videos, each of a length of 30-60 minutes. In those videos where some sponsors mentioned which took only one or two minutes. Seems perfectly OK for me to support the creators. I guess if many people block sponsor content, this kind of vids will die.
- Bishonen88 3y agoSo what are we paying premium for if the creator pushes their own ads? Anyhow, when I was watching TV year's ago, I hardly ever stayed on a channel during the ads break. I won't sacrifice my time being sold on mostly rubbish which I wouldn't buy anyway (vpn, brilliant etc.)
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- chasil 3y agoI use Skytube; I wasn't aware that Newpipe had a download feature.
- jakeogh 3y agoskytube is nice for search since you can ban chans, and therefore skip the spam.
- ForHackernews 3y agoThis is the default player on https://e.foundation/e-os/ https://e.foundation/e-os/
- noman-land 3y agoNewPipe is the best. Dunno how people watch YouTube without it. You can also subscribe to channels from it without a YouTube account.
- grudg3 3y agoAgree, but unfortunately I still can't use it to stream to my Chromecast so I need to go to the YouTube app when I want to play stuff on TV
- Zambyte 3y agoCan't you just display your screen using chromecast? I use newpipe on my tv all the time by juat plugging my phone in via HDMI.
- m4rtink 3y agoSmartTube supports Chromecast/Android TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
- actf 3y agoTo be clear, it doesn't support casting, which is what the previous commenter was asking for. It runs directly on android tv. The app even says that there is no support for phones or tablets so casting isn't going to work. I also agree that casting is the major missing feature from all these apps. Mirroring might be a substitute for some but, again to be clear, it isn't the same as casting and in most cases the quality is going to suffer significantly.
- m4rtink 3y agoSure, but I think thats still a viable workaround - especially as SmartTube plays the video natively on the device with maximum available quality. Sure, if you have the video link in your phone, you might need to get it to the TV/Chromecast somehow, but I think that is usually manageable.
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- tux3 3y agoIf the war on ablockers continues things may escalate, and the next step will soon mean deploying stronger DRM, in the same way that was tried in the fight against piracy. There's a real parallel between the two. Streaming killed piracy for a while because the service was easy and convenient, with everything in one place. Then, streaming added more and more ads all while it became more fragmented. Now if you pay for a service, you will still see ads, and you have an increasingly limited catalog (even on Youtube, as creators move extra content on Nebula or Patreon) The more Youtube squeezes and pushes ads, the more demand there will be for adblockers.
- vbezhenar 3y agoThe end game is encrypted DRM stream (which is decrypted in the display) with encoded ads (so you can't block it tinkering with JS). I guess that only abundance of devices without DRM is stopping this scenario.
- ethbr1 3y agoOnly general purpose computers are stopping this scenario.
- richwater 3y ago> encrypted DRM stream Widevine already exists and is increasingly difficult to crack, especially the key levels required for 4k content. > encoded ads Only a matter of time before hardware encoders can do this on the fly
- tomrod 3y ago> The end game is encrypted DRM stream That's not the endgame -- Digg:Reddit::YouTube:Vimeo is the end game, IMHO.
- alkonaut 3y agoHow are the ads even skippable on YouTube? I have never really had a good answer to that. I mean, why is the ad even a different stream or detectable on the client? Shouldn't the ads just be spliced into the videos if you really want to make sure people watch them? Is it because it would be prohibitively expensive to do that kind of live encoding for each viewer?
- lacrimacida 3y agoAnything like this for Ios? Im now downloading vids or sound files from youtube for offline use with invidio.us
- haunter 3y agoYattee, needs a bit more tinkering to setup though (it's a general network videoplayer not an alternate YT client like NewPipe) https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_up_and_use_yattee_to_watch_youtube/ https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...
- lacrimacida 3y agoThanks
- eur0pa 3y agoSideload uYouPlus / uYouExtra with Altstore
- lacrimacida 3y agoThanks. Now how do I get an alt store…
- bkm 3y agoNewpipe is great for background listening and PIP (window can be resized/moved). For downloading, Seal reigns supreme. You can 'share' a video to the app and it downloads the video right away. Link: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/ https://f-droid.org/packages/com.junkfood.seal/
- Gerard0 3y agoAwesome app. I send them money from time to time when possible!
- sigmar 3y agoI've been using this on android for more than 6 years. Love being able to quickly download a local copy of video or music as I'm boarding a flight or train. Highly recommend getting it using fdroid instead of apk because there have been points when youtube made changes that break the app and you'll need to get the latest update
- clort 3y agoHighly recommend the NewPipe upstream repository within F-Droid, they usually fix breakage right away whereas F-Droid repository version can be a few days behind.
- fariss 3y agoThis is exactly what I used it for last time; downloading videos before boarding a flight.
- SigmundurM 3y agoI would recommend using Obtainium[1] over F-Droid. Obtainum downloads APKs directly from the repository's releases page, for example the GitHub releases page. Why not use F-Droid? "Due to their process of building apps, apps in the official F-Droid repository often fall behind on updates. F-Droid maintainers also reuse package IDs while signing apps with their own keys, which is not ideal as it gives the F-Droid team ultimate trust. Additionally, the requirements for an app to be included in the official F-Droid repo are less strict than other app stores like Google Play, meaning that F-Droid tends to host a lot more apps which are older, unmaintained, or otherwise no longer meet modern security standards."[2] [1]: https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium#readme https://github.com/ImranR98/Obtainium#readme [2]: https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#f-droid https://www.privacyguides.org/en/android/#f-droid
- noirscape 3y agoDo keep in mind the prior part that explains why they reuse package IDs and use signing keys that way; F-Droid aims for reproducible builds[0]. They also to my knowledge do respect developers that want a different build ID/package title to be used compared to the "official" version. The F-Droid version of Island for example is called Insular specifically to avoid this issue. PrivacyGuides' motivations here are really aimed for a specific type of user (and I'll note that it's slightly odd for them to place so much faith in a point of origin that's historically been the easiest to compromise: the upstream developer usually is the easiest target, particularly on otherwise dormant software); the tradeoff F-Droid does might be more worthwhile for most people in that they act more like a linux distro maintainer, so there's a second set of eyes to prevent any shenanigans from being afoot on the upstream. You can as I understand it run their actual servers rather easily (provided you have the computer space to do so)[1], so solving that is pretty easy, should you feel inclined to do so. [0]: https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Reproducible_Builds/ [1]: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata contains all the files used to generate their servers, should just be able to combine it with their guide on how to run a buildserver on https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Build_Server_Setup/ https://f-droid.org/en/docs/Build_Server_Setup/
- tomrod 3y agoWe use it daily. We love quietly streaming music during meals. It supports subscriptions (though no account integration to Google, obviously). Well done NewPipe, you're showing how web applications should be done.
- wg0 3y agoIf you tube blocks their API, would it be game over for such clients? Or how does it work?
- sigmar 3y agoiirc it loads the page as if it were a browser, then scrapes and downloads the video.
- alok-g 3y agoWhat prevents YouTube from sending ad and the actual video in a single video download/stream?
- master-lincoln 3y agoProbably the cost of creating that stream realtime while ads spots are being bidded on
- lapinot 3y agoThey don't use official APIs (if you do you need to register a dev account and this sort of thing would most likely be against the TOS), just like yt-dlp they reverse engineer all sorts of apps youtube has (the webpage, the mobile webpage, the TV app, the android app, ...) and thus get all sorts of undocumented APIs to scrap from.
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- anoncow 3y agoI can't find a source which has all the financial figures for YouTube, but YouTube had a gross revenue of 29 bn USD in 2022. Alphabet had 55 bn USD in net income in 2022 of which how much was YouTube's share in the net income is unknown (or at least I couldn't find it). Let's use some assumptions to get to a number. 1. Let's assume that out of the 29 bn USD revenue that YouTube brings in 55% is shared with creators. Thus we are left with 13 bn USD. 2. We know that YouTube's share in the overall revenue of Alphabet was 10.5%. Let's assume that all of Alphabet's properties were proportionately profitable (highly incorrect assumption). If the properties were proportionately profitable, YouTube's would have bought in a net income of 5.75 bn. 3. In the past it has been reported that YouTube has been breakeven from a profitability perspective. This means that YouTube's net profit is in the range of 0 to 5bn USD. This is at best a gross profit margin of 17% which is not good for an internet services company. I strongly believe technology like NewPipe should exist and companies shouldn't push for more DRM. But end users should not misuse open technologies so much so that companies end up with no other option but E2E encryption for video.
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- namrog84 3y agoI wonder if a torrent style equivalent for bandwidth sharing for things like YouTube content creators could work. Like you get ads unless you seed enough and then no ads when you consume. I think it'd only work as a near seamless ui experience and not actually using torrents or any extra setup or complications. Probably branded a bit differently.
- hsbauauvhabzb 3y agoBandwidth costs money, YouTube can probably do it cheaper than end users at scale. But this isn’t about reduced bandwidth expenses, this is about maximising profit extraction.
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- Animats 3y agoInstallable via F-Droid, always a good sign.
- FrenchyJiby 3y agoAbsolutely, though the default F-Droid repo is a little slow to update (in case of the twice-a-year "Youtube changed their UI, breaking the world" update), so Newpipe team recommends their own (third party) F-Droid repo[1], where the updates are fresh off the press. [1]: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/ https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
- globalnode 3y agof-droid website says "This app promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service" -- whats that all about?
- maxhille 3y agoBecause YouTube itself is non-free as in proprietary software
- globalnode 3y agoright, i knew that -- thanks max :D
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- bluGill 3y agoYou should use peertube instead. Saddly there isn't much content there, but try to look there first and reward those who post there with your eyeballs.
- Animats 3y agoPeertube is useful, but so little used that I have 3 of the top 20 videos on Hardlimit, and they're tech demos of a rather obscure program. The most popular has 2,500 views. What might be useful is some way to use PeerTube distribution on any .mp4 file. Peertube is only a caching system, not a replicated hosting system like BitTorrent. You have to host one copy of the file somewhere. You should be able to put that master copy on any low-end web server, generate a Peertube URL for it, and let Peertube spool it out. Peertube works by mooching bandwidth off the people watching, so as viewership goes up, so do serving resources.
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- scotty79 3y agoI had trouble switching to alternative clients because I rely on algorithmic feed for new content. However I have a perfect application for NewPipe. I like to run it quietly in the background as I fall asleep. Murmur of a voice too quiet to understand helps me sleep. Ads were making that use case impossible. Another use case is downloading music I like. I used YouTube for music discovery an ingestion. Now after I find something good I go to NewPipe and dowlnoad it as local audio file and enjoy it like it's good old times of napster and mp3-s.
- shiroiuma 3y ago>Now after I find something good I go to NewPipe and dowlnoad it as local audio file and enjoy it like it's good old times of napster and mp3-s. I haven't tried NewPipe, but you can easily download audio streams on YouTube using yt-dlp. It even lets you see all the available stream options and pick the one you want, so if you prefer opus or aac, you can select that.
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- Unfrozen0688 3y agoAnother reason why Android is the superior phone OS.
- miki123211 3y agoiOS has Yattee[1]. It's technically a personal video-watching app, not a Youtube app, which you're supposed to link with your own personal video server, but the server APIs it is compatible with are the same APIs that are exposed by Invidious and Newpipe instances. This is not a coincidence. I'm sure Apple is going to delist it from the App Store at some point (App Store guidelines are just that, guidelines, and there's no getting around them with a weird loophole like you can do with actual laws), but it works for now.
- ggrelet 3y ago[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629 https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
- lolinder 3y ago> I'm sure Apple is going to delist it from the App Store at some point (App Store guidelines are just that, guidelines, and there's no getting around them with a weird loophole like you can do with actual laws), but it works for now. Hence F-Droid, which cannot exist on iOS.
- lxgr 3y agoNot yet! The EU’s Digital Markets Act will go into force soon.
- lolinder 3y agoTrue! Unfortunately, I fully expect Apple to keep alternate app stores locked out in other locales. I'll be happy if I'm proven wrong, but they've been so determined in fighting this that it seems likely they'll consider it to be worth the extra work.
- falcor84 3y agoIt's almost perfect, except for the fact that I really like being able to thumbs-up videos I like, to support the creators. I feel really uncomfortable not having that option.
- Aachen 3y ago- So long as they give their sole custom to Google/Youtube and don't support other platforms in any way, even though it's trivial to upload an mp4 onto another platform and set the title and description same as yt, I don't feel too bad being in a tiny fraction of a minority that doesn't want to have a Google account in order to 'smash' the like button. There's no least evil to be picked here, no market forces at play, it's using google or bust. On the whole, I feel alright not supporting that choice, though part of me also feels as you do of course. - It's also not as though you're upvoting/liking videos other than theirs, so they won't rank lower because you didn't support them. - I'm sure the folks at google figured out that watching a video is already a sign of the content being interesting. When using the official (web) player, it clearly uses this to generate recommendations (to many people's frustration) - You can always share videos with friends or on Mastodon etc. where appropriate, that draws more eyeballs than a passive thumbs up button anyway and thus helps the creator more
- nine_k 3y agoWhat is the other platform you suggest for video uploads? Vimeo? Facebook? Twitch?
- lolinder 3y ago> It's also not as though you're upvoting/liking videos other than theirs, so they won't rank lower because you didn't support them. The math doesn't work like that—if you can't Like any videos, then all of the videos you watch have an infinitesimally smaller Liked ratio and count than they would if you could. Any given video isn't competing with all the other videos you watch, it's competing with all the other videos anywhere on the site.
- wkat4242 3y agoThe big benefit of newpipe besides skipping ads is that you don't need an account. Which you need for those upvotes anyway.
- WaffleIronMaker 3y agoI also recommend GrayJay https://GrayJay.app https://GrayJay.app
- kim0 3y agoI use it daily, has been amazing so far
- Ruthalas 3y agoWhat are your experiences with it? Interested to hear a review from a user.
- curvilinear_m 3y agoI use it as my main YouTube app on my phone, it's working nice. One drawback for me is the failure if you have too many YouTube subscriptions (>200-300). I removed some creators and it's working fine. You see Grayjay's likes and comments on videos but there are very few of them (you also see YouTube comments and likes). I wish the community around it grew, it has potential.
- beretguy 3y agoLouis Rossmann had a video introducing this app, but I can’t find it. Did YouTube force him to take down that video, anybody knows?
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- 2OEH8eoCRo0 3y agoThere is also Grayjay[1] from Futo[2] now too. [1] https://grayjay.app/ https://grayjay.app/ [2] https://futo.org/ https://futo.org/
- jeena 3y agoThe main reason why I don't use it is that I can't log in into my PeerTube instance and watch the Internal and Private videos for which you have to be logged in. But this kind of goes against the privacy stand against giving google the information about who you are they have. Which in my case is a bit different because I'm the admin of my own PeerTube instance.
- levitate 3y agohow long until this gets nuked like youtube vanced?
- Hikikomori 3y agoThere's revanced, just installed it today.
- j1elo 3y agoDoes anyone else have the experience of next queued videos always going wild with longer and longer videos of the same stuff? I had a screenshot prepared to report as an issue, but in the end didn't feel it would be worth it. Absolutely every time I'll start with a song, and 3 next videos after, I'll be facing a 10 hour long version of the same fkng song, if not a loop of the same 2 or 3 videos.
- bArray 3y agoI use an old Android device for watching Youtube, but Youtube recently dropped support for it. Immediately downloaded F-Droid, installed this, back up and running better than ever. One thing to note is that the Google export for Youtube is completely broken and I've been manually importing subscriptions.
- monadINtop 3y agoIt will never be as good as Youtube Vanced (god rest it's soul) but it gets the job done, despite the occasional bug
- lazycouchpotato 3y agoIf you didn't know, there is YouTube ReVanced [1]. https://github.com/revanced https://github.com/revanced
- ranguna 3y agoJust a small correction: it's not "YouTube" ReVenced, it's just ReVenced. ReVenced is a group dedicated to patching apps, but the group itself doesn't provide any patched apps. It does provide this app to patch other apps: https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager https://github.com/ReVanced/revanced-manager
- earthling8118 3y agoThe app functionality definitely isn't as good, but the installation process for Vanced was abysmal. NewPipe just installs itself and is good to go. That has a lot of value.
- monadINtop 3y agoYeah that's fair, although having an ad-free version of YouTube that was completely synced with your account had lots of advantages compared totthe seperate mirror world you get with newpipe. Overall I'm glad both of them exist(ed), and they both had different strengths and weaknesses.
- deadfece 3y agoNewpipe tip for people studying via YT videos: use the speed adjustment and enable skip silence.
- linuxhansl 3y agoBeen using this one forever. It's pretty good. Every now and then Youtube changes something in their API, then Newpipe usually needs to a day or two to adjust.
- ChrisArchitect 3y agoAnything new here? (2022) Some previous discussion last year https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449570
- m1keil 3y agoHonestly, if there is one reason to use this app is because it allows you to share video with timestamp unlike the official Youtube app that is still unable to do that in 2023.
- dukeofdoom 3y agoI wanted to listen to youtube videos while working out. Couldn't figure out the default youtube player to let me do that. This worked first time I tried. Supper happy. Thanks.
- Justsignedup 3y agoI found NP was having trouble keeping up, meanwhile youtube revanced has been amazing.
- smrtinsert 3y agoI need a replacement for baconreader if there's something in the vein
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- aantix 3y agoI’m looking for an iOS client that will allow me to block certain keywords from being displayed as recommendations? E.g. Minecraft, mrbeast, etc I want my kids to watch something other than their hundredth Minecraft walkthrough, screaming YouTuber video..
- krupan 3y agoJust block YouTube, your kids will find other things to do. If you find a good video then watch it with them on your device
- aantix 3y agoFeels like an opportunity lost. I want them to explore on their own, including online content. I just want the topics for videos to be more diverse.
- sannysanoff 3y agobeen there. If you block something, they downgrade to something even worse, each bloody time.
- mixmastamyk 3y agoYT is built to pigeon-hole, profile, and surveil the user; diversity of content is not a goal. Despite the wide library.
- coldtrait 3y agoThings like these are what keep me from switching to iOS. And apps like Instander for Instagram etc.
- qwertox 3y agoIs there somewhere a curated list of good YouTube channels, since the recommendation engine of YT won't work with these apps (or at least I guess that they won't work with them)? Like a RSS with a channel list containing channels like Jeff Geerling, Code to the Moon, Jon Gjengset, Everyday Astronaut and the like?
- maxglute 3y agoBest part of new pipe is setting up channel groups, which default youtube really needs. But annoyng you can't play channel as playlist.
- flowenworld 3y agoOk
- Roark66 3y agoDon't forget about android TV :-) There is SmartTubeNext with ad/sponsor block and most importantly it let's you remove shorts, news, games, music, transmissions. And it is open source.
- _joel 3y agoI use this daily and it's been an absolute breath of fresh air, making youtube actually watchable.
- jonwest 3y agoI wish SmartTube was able to connect to Invidious instances. As Google is getting more and more aggressive against ad blockers, I’d like to be able to put one more “insurance” barrier in place in case they end up start banning accounts. SmartTube is far and away the best YouTube client for androidTV, legitimate or otherwise though. Even if I was paying for YouTube premium, SmartTube would still provide an objectively better viewing experience.
- iamflimflam1 3y agoIt’s surprising how many people in the comments don’t want adverts, don’t want sponsorship AND don’t want to pay anything for content.
- eimrine 3y agoI would like to pay YT/creators with my own PC with several TB disk space and 100Mbps connection (even 1Gbps inside country) which might host some videos by the network's choice.
- yread 3y agoIf you get people hooked by being free you can't be surprised they want it to be free
- HeavyStorm 3y agoIt's still free, you're not paying for anything.
- jiffygist 3y agoI enjoy using newpipe for streaming music and podcasts on a phone. However I feel like nothing has changed for a while. My wishlist: viewing replies, after clicking on a timestamp it should stay in background mode (now it switches to popup), do not stack videos (back button should return to main page), searching within history, incognito mode.
- b3nji 3y agoWhat do you guys think to GrayJay? Following the creators, not the platforms. I'm told sponser block is in the works too. https://grayjay.app/ https://grayjay.app/
- lrvick 3y agoWhen it is open source and available on Linux I am sold.
- pricci 3y agoThe source is open https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay
- lrvick 3y agoThe source is public. Public source is not open source. It is not open for me to port, repair, improve, or redistribute to signed and reproducible built distribution channels like f-droid, arch, or debain as I see fit. Honestly really disappointing from a team known for promoting right to repair. I was totally on board with sharing grayjay from the rooftops until I saw the LICENSE file and my heart sank. Also at a minimum this creates a lack of accountability to prove given binaries came exactly from published code. Someone backdoors the grayjay CI/CD server and everyone gets a backdoored app. Centralized software distribution is irresponsible in a world where supply chain attacks are common. If they just care about malicious impersonation they should have just done what Mozilla did and file trademarks but leave the code open.
- harvie 3y agoYoutube seems to be quite efficient with blocking all opensource players. They change the API regulary on purpose. Never had such app working longer than few weeks.
- lrvick 3y agoBeen using FreeTube daily for the last few years. They stay on top of it.
- randomdev3 3y agoPaying $1 to a creator earn them more than all the ads you would watch during your lifetime. Applies to websites also. But noone wants to pay.
- severus_snape 3y agoI pay. People pay, stop saying no one wants to pay, it's wrong. One example that comes in mind is Wikipedia: no ads, people pay.
- cjmcqueen 3y agoGoogle and other companies that use Wikipedia pay a lot more than "people".
- szszrk 3y agoThat's just plain lie. There is A LOT o f creators supported by pure money donations from individual creators, or mostly by those. A lot of them support themselves by selling merch. Which is nothing new, as nowadays a lot of small/medium size bands live of selling merch. When a major Polish radio, legendary 3rd national radio channel, went to shit after several decades (fired important staff and dummed down offer) people literally crowdfunded a full successor, with same famous presenters and so on. When that one started to push weird agenda to much and diverged from original goals... There was another one crowdfunded, pulled a lot of other major famous personell, and runs as a huge project successfully from Patreon donations. These examples are not even unique.
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- OOPMan 3y agoIf you want this on PC there is FreeTube.
- holysantamaria 3y agoBeing cheap can ruin your life. Stop it, get some help.
- qweqwe14 3y agoEnjoy paying for stuff you don't need, I guess
- BigElephant 3y agoI prefer to use revanced. I noticed that newpipe sometimes had issues playing videos while revanced can play the same video with no problem
- crazygringo 3y agoNow that Google is cracking down on adblockers, are any 3rd-party apps like this going to survive? I'm assuming Google's going to do things to break them. Which makes me worried about yt-dlp as well -- sometimes I download educational videos and other useful content I'm worried might get deleted, and with the crackdown on adblockers, I'm worried the ability to download videos will just completely cease to exist.
- oakhaven 3y agoThis. Newpipe is great, but I'm surprised every month to see it working. I can't imagine Google pushing out adblockers and allowing apps like newpipe to work. Maybe it's not used as much as adblockers yet.
- shiroiuma 3y ago>sometimes I download educational videos and other useful content I'm worried might get deleted I've seen enough stuff on the web (not just YouTube) deleted that now, I try to always download and archive anything I think I might want to look at again in the future. You just never know when it's going to disappear. These services cannot be trusted to retain anything for the future. >with the crackdown on adblockers, I'm worried the ability to download videos will just completely cease to exist. I really don't see how this is possible, technically. As long as they're sending data to people to view on their own computers, it's just not possible to prevent copying that data. The only thing they can do is make it more difficult, but unless they change to requiring people to use a proprietary application to view that data, there's only so much they can do while making stuff that can be viewed in a web browser. Companies have been trying to come up with copy-protection schemes for decades and still haven't succeeded; the only times they've arguably done so is when they completely controlled the whole platform (and even then, eventually people cracked it if it was popular enough). I think it's always just going to be an arms race between the content purveyors and the crackers, so there will only be short periods where copying will be impossible, until the crackers figure out the new scheme. What's much more important, IMO, is the issue of content simply being deleted or otherwise inaccessible. We see this all the time now.
- jpereira 3y agoI would love an alternative client that works with a YouTube Premium subscription. I'm happy to pay for no adds, I just want a UI that respects my attention and intentions as well.
- unobatbayar 3y agoNice app, but running a privacy friendly app on an Android itself is an oxymoron.
- knallfrosch 3y agoAgree. And the inability to log in is weird. The user could always not log in - although I understand them not putting in free work on features they don't believe in.
- mjaniczek 3y agoNewPipe would be absolutely awesome, if only it didn't crash five times a day with a focus-stealing crash report window.
- yownie 3y agoNo one else finds the "fast forward during silence" a game changer? I wish vlc had this feature too! Also wish downloaded videos could be played offline by newpipe.