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NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
- Sytten 8mo agoNewpipe is great, I tend to spend too much time on youtube. This at least limits it. It does break from time to time.
- weightedreply 8mo agoSee also: Tubular https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.polymorphicshade.tubular...
- chrysoprace 8mo agoContext: Tubular is a fork of NewPipe that adds SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike integration.
- EspadaV9 8mo agoThere is a fork called PipePipe[0] too, that also implements SponsorBlock 0: https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
- ErenayDev 8mo agoI just switched from Tubular[0] to PipePipe. It has more feature than Tubular! I also migrated my database without any problems. 0: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- simon666 8mo agoI've been using and loving NewPipe since 2015 or 2016--whenever it first showed up on Fdroid. Really like the ability to play songs from bandcamp too. Although there's one bug in the bandcamp workflow that I wish was fixed: If you search for an artist then tap the artist page in the results this will take you to the albums screen. Click to the album, then if you either use the back arrow or swipe back you're returned to the search results rather than the list of albums on the artist page.
- bryanhogan 8mo agoWhat's the difference of NewPipe to ReVanced?
- charcircuit 8mo agoRevanced is a mod for the official Android app, where NewPipe is an original app. In practice this means that Revanced will be much more feature complete than NewPipe.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 8mo agoIt also means revanced is legally dicey whereas newpipe is essentially a legal frontend/scraper of YouTube.
- digiown 8mo agoRevanced is only distributed as patches, probably to avoid being susceptible to the claims against the original Vanced. Worth noting that ReVanced has a lot more patches than just YouTube.
- ksynwa 8mo agoNot that I care about it but I'm sure you are also violating some terms of service by using NewPipe
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 8mo agoA trained monkey to operates the controls for me.
- xigoi 8mo agoNewPipe has many features that the official app doesn’t, such as speeding up videos up to 5×.
- charcircuit 8mo agoRevanced supports up to 5x too.
- tom_ 8mo agoEditorialized title! Portrait aspect ratio (or "vertical video", as it's described here - at least I assume that's what the term refers to - like, as if the landscape aspect ratio has no Y axis!) is not obviously mentioned anywhere.
- netsharc 8mo agoI don't get why the poster thinks NewPipe doesn't support vertical videos (let's not be anal, we know what they mean) if the video is "vertical" then making it fullscreen will fill the phone's screen vertically.
- tom_ 8mo agoWell, perhaps you know what they mean! Me? I can only read the words and then guess based on the words I read. If it's not clear from my post what guesses I have made based on the words I have read, and which assumptions I have made while making those guesses, then I apologise. I will try to make it easier for the reader next time. It sounds like you found no reference to portrait aspect ratio videos in the article either.
- Brian_K_White 8mo agoI assumed it was just a sloppy way to actually say it has an option to filter out shorts. (Because shorts are always portrait, and it's a common wish to want to eliminate shorts.) Either way, I also knew what they meant, because "vertical video" is not an inscrutable term that leaves any room to guess it's meaning incorrectly. It's entirely scrutable. You can keep trying to defend the obtuse complaint that all videos have a vertical dimension, but if it were me I think I would not be so eager to advertise that I was this baffled by this.
- Dylan16807 8mo agoYes, we can assume "vertical video" means "shorts". But once we do that, I still don't see anything on the front page or the FAQ or the github page that mentions shorts. The HN title had "without vertical videos" jammed in and that needs clarification. Maybe there's a toggle somewhere to hide shorts? Or maybe it doesn't have a shorts feed but it otherwise has shorts? Or something else? It's not clear.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 8mo agoI love newpipe I've watched hundreds of hours of videos on my shield tv with it.
- biglyburrito 8mo agoThere's also Freetube, which is a fantastic desktop client. https://freetubeapp.io https://freetubeapp.io
- digiown 8mo agoFor some reason I always preferred having tabs on desktop, so I can having stuff paused to be watched later.
- nvader 8mo agoThanks, I've bookmarked it for later.
- pmarreck 8mo agois this just a way to browse youtube without ads or tracking, or what? I'm looking to just hide Shorts, but I want my recommendations. Not sure what's out there for that.
- user_unique 8mo agoI'd recommend stayfree. It works great on mobile android with feature blocking (shorts and reels) and we'll as time based and scheduled blocks. You can remove the blocks by retyping a long prompt.
- pmarreck 8mo agoUnfortunately I'm not an Android guy.
- WithinReason 8mo agoand Grayjay
- Frotag 8mo agoIME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago. I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in. https://invidious.io/ https://invidious.io/ https://materialio.us/ https://materialio.us/
- kyleee 8mo agoI think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though.
- jimlikeslimes 8mo agoI think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised. Fixes are released quickly ime too.
- truckingthrow33 8mo agoI use it to mainly download videos, and that seems to break every few weeks. I just updated and it's fixed. Small price to pay.
- Hoodedcrow 8mo agoFor downloads, I prefer Seal - a wrapper for yt-dlp. yt-dlp can update faster like this since doesn't have to update together with the app, and can add metadata and apply Sponsorblock. Could just use yt-dlp from Termux but this is more convenient.
- _blk 8mo agoAbsolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;)
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- someperson 8mo agoFor the desktop, I recommend https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions https://github.com/lawrencehook/remove-youtube-suggestions
- _HMCB_ 8mo agoI see no mention of not playing vertical videos on their website.
- satvikpendem 8mo agoThe issue is I like the algorithmic feed, as well as having all my subscriptions there. I believe that's not available in NewPipe without manually adding all subscription channels.
- okanat 8mo agoNewPipe can parse a Google data export dump and import all of your subs.
- satvikpendem 8mo agoThat's too manual, I have tons of subscriptions and subscribe to new channels often. Maybe there could be auto syncing via a Google data export through a cron job or something.
- cermicelli 8mo agoIf only it worked. We need a good alternative to YouTube that still let's creators feed themselves... Though I don't think it will ever happen...
- fragmede 8mo agoBrilliant? Nova? It won't happen if you don't support it.
- cermicelli 8mo agoWhat's Brilliant?
- fragmede 8mo agohttps://brilliant.org/ https://brilliant.org/ > an online, interactive learning platform designed to teach STEM subjects—math, science, and computer science—through active problem-solving rather than passive, pre-recorded video lectures https://nebula.tv/ https://nebula.tv/ was the other one I was thinking of.
- cermicelli 8mo agoHow is that relevant to YouTube? Same for nebula? Nebula is an exclusive invite only platform where no creators outside of English mains and hard left ones are present. I am not on the right to be specific but I speak other languages and would like more non English content as well. Same for the exclusivity. Small creators don't exist on either of them. Ideally we need a video delivery and servicing platform where I can pay like 10 usd per month for my small audience of friends and to view with the convenience of YouTube and good features... All platforms like these are exclusive for my tastes. I don't sub to any channels with over 100k subs and rest are just programming adjacent content.
- catify 8mo agoI don't use YouTube much nowadays. It's better for your mental health. I mostly use a fork called Tubular that has sponsored block
- alskdj21 8mo agoBeen a long time user of Newpipe. It do occasionally break but not that huge of a deal breaker for me. Only complaint is I can't select a livestream quality/resolution. I want to catch up to some news live and put those on background but it would use too much bandwidth since it's locked to a higher resolution. In such cases, I would just open them on Firefox, set to desktop mode, and listen from there. Afaik, Invidious doesn't support livestreams.
- CivBase 8mo agoI primarily use NewPipe, but I'll also throw out Grayjay as a client with similar benefits. They work a little differently and since Google sometimes pushes out breaking changes to YouTube's API, I'll switch to Grayjay while I wait for the eventual NewPipe update. In my experience, the Grayjay player also tends to work better with live streams.
- iCstyle 8mo agoSwizzTube for iOS is also great
- dang 8mo agoI think these are the main related past threads: NewPipe Is Turning 10 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707575 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45707575 - Oct 2025 (28 comments) NewPipe 0.26 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38732781 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38732781 - Dec 2023 (91 comments) NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144400 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38144400 - Nov 2023 (389 comments) NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449570 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30449570 - Feb 2022 (220 comments) NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871169 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23871169 - July 2020 (590 comments) “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe” - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 - Oct 2019 (522 comments)
- dartharva 8mo agoI use LibreTube: https://libretube.dev/ https://libretube.dev/
- homeslice69 8mo agonewpipe used to work great for me. but for the past month or so I can't watch a video without being prompted to sign in. this is despite constantly switching vpn servers. others don't seem to have this problem. I wonder if my device has been fingerprinted and blocked somehow.
- imposter 8mo ago[dead]
- TechSquidTV 8mo agoPlease just buy YouTube Premium and support content creators on the only platform that gives a fair deal.
- y-curious 8mo agoI do this and I am still considering going third party if I can’t turn off shorts soon
- InsideOutSanta 8mo agoThe problem with this is that views from third-party clients don't seem to be counted correctly. Lots of creators now have ads in their videos, in addition to YT ads, so presumably, the lower view counts also hurt their own ad sales. I don't really want to use the official YT client, or give Google any money, so I just buy some merch from my favorite creators once in a while, or support them on Patreon.
- KORraN 8mo agoThis is the way. If a user does not have YT Premium, watching 500 hours earns the creator from $0.5 to $5. Patreon/merch is way more effective in supporting your favorite authors.
- TechSquidTV 8mo agoNo this is just an excuse. Not all content creators are full time or have audiences. Sometimes people just make valuable content, and deserve to be paid under the agreement that they give you free content, you watch an ad. If you don't like the service, do not use the service.
- xigoi 8mo agoEven with premium, the official YouTube app has a much worse UX than NewPipe (and is proprietary).
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- akssri 8mo agoNewpipe is awesome. If you're on firefox, you can block the main-page feed with the following filter in ublock-origin, "www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"]" Sadly, you can't do this on Chrome/Chromium anymore with manifest v3.
- s_ting765 8mo agoI revived a once popular Youtube frontend called Cloudtube. All the Youtube media url deciphering is still done by Invidious and I use it more like a frontend for invidious. https://github.com/rhee876527/clean-youtube/ https://github.com/rhee876527/clean-youtube/
- metalman 8mo agoNewPipe works good enough, learned here that "was able to get it working again immediately by simply changing the www.youtube.com IPv4 address", is a fix for it breaking, not that it fusses me as watching vids is a very low priority for me, though sometimes a video that tells me which wire to cut first, is invaluable and has saved my sorry ass.Which sometimes I wish there was a similar way to make, edit and upload videos useing nothing but a cheap phone.
- scott01 8mo agoIt’s possible to disable history in YouTube’s settings. This will turn off algorithmic feed replacing it with a reverse chronological feed of channels you’re subscribed to.
- zeckalpha 8mo agoThere are YouTube settings that seem to get unset periodically. Even some that their documentations says should be sticky, like caption preferences.
- Asparagus7426 8mo agoIs there anything comparable for ios?
- maximalthinker 8mo ago[flagged]
- jeena 8mo agoI use Tubular because of sponsorblock.
- goodbeech 8mo ago[dead]
- villgax 8mo agoI used to use this & just ended up paying for premium for my family to get over the headache of bugs & risking any IP associated with our google accounts lest Sundar wakes up on the wrong side of the bed
- citizenpaul 8mo agoProbably already mentioned, but tubular is a fork with sponsor block enabled https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- igneo676 8mo agoThe biggest issue with it is that watching a few videos in a row will result in YouTube soft blocking your IP for an hour or so. They're really cracking down on watching videos without a login