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NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client

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Post by Nginx487 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 2:53 PM UTC

NewPipe – ad-free, open-source Android YouTube client
newpipe.schabi.org

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Post by Nextgrid » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:13 PM UTC

Related: https://invidio.us

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#3

Post by ab_testing » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:26 PM UTC

What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and end of the video ?

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Post by mawalu » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:30 PM UTC

ab_testing wrote: post #3

What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and end of the video ?

No. The ads are separate video files that get played after each other by the browser or youtube app. Since this app is complete independent it just choose to not play the video ads

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Post by npteljes » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:32 PM UTC

ab_testing wrote: post #3

What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and end of the video ?

In an app's context, I think it means _additional_ ads. In this case though, since on YouTube the ads are not baked into the original video, it also means that you get to watch the content without these ads that are represented by a yellow bar on YouTube.

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Post by vsviridov » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:32 PM UTC

An excellent app. Plays stuff in the background and has a built-in downloader, for those big podcasts on the go.

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Post by krtkush » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:37 PM UTC

Excellent app.

I implemented the update notification for the GitHub APKs few years back.

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Post by R0b0t1 » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:39 PM UTC

ab_testing wrote: post #3

What does ad-free mean? Arent ads embedded in the youtube videos itself such that when you play a long video, multiple ads show up in the beginning, middle and end of the video ?

The ads are delivered separately for now. You bring up an interesting idea; I guess they aren't able to store the ads in the video stream for now.

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Post by noarchy » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

This remains a killer app for me on Android. I don't know if anything equivalent exists on iOS, to enable background playing and video downloads (and you can choose whether to download them as audio files).

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Post by rtcoms » Fri, Jul 17, 2020, 4:50 PM UTC

Somewhere I read that using such apps may get your account blocked by google.

not sure how much truth in that, but I've avoided using such apps because of that.