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

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

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Post by dubya »

mawalu wrote: post #4
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

I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading without blockers gives ads before and every few minutes and some overlays. Miserable.

It's still easy to work around, but maybe Google's getting more aggressive about blockers.

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

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Post by alex_free »

noarchy wrote: post #9

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).

With iOS Safari you can change the YouTube website setting to always request the desktop site. Then if you press the home button while a video is playing, pull up control center within 5 seconds and press play you have background playback.

There is also a ton of ad blockers for Safari which block YouTube ads.

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

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Post by ffpip »

rtcoms wrote: post #10

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.

I've used this from the start. Btw you don't need to give your google account to use this in any way. It is a fully functional (better) youtube client.

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Post by sgloutnikov »

noarchy wrote: post #9

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).

Musi[1] is what I use for playing in the background on iOS.

[1] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/musi-simple-music-streaming/id...

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

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Post by ffpip »

vsviridov wrote: post #6

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

It is also integrating SponsorBlock in the app. It skips sponsors, patreons and LTT plugins within a video

Free and Open Source - https://sponsor.ajay.app/

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

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Post by ffpip »

R0b0t1 wrote: post #8
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.

They can't personlize ads then, unless they are willing to put extreme load on their servers for every video ever requested

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Post by drewg123 »

This is the best youtube client, bar none. It keeps local history and "subscriptions" without requiring you to log in to google. I use it on an Amazon Fire Tablet. There seems to be no iOS equivalent, which is one of the things preventing me from upgrading to an iPad.

Has anybody used it recently on AndroidTV / FireTV? I've tried it several times in the past, and its always been wonky there. I use SmartYouTubeTV (https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/) on AndroidTV right now, and the logged out experience is terrible.

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

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Post by dimitrios1 »

dubya wrote: post #11
mawalu wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I hadn't seen a Youtube ad in years, but now Youtube gives "An error occurred. Please try again later." on first load in Safari on a Mac with Wipr. Reloading without blockers gives ads before and every few minutes and some overlays. Miserable. It's still easy to work around, but maybe Google's getting more aggressive about blockers.

A tinfoil hat theory I heard is that's the reason they want to push QUIC -- to give them more signals for blocking people with ad blockers.

Not that I believe it, but fighting ad blockers in general is a losing battle in my opinion, eventually you will just end up blocking too many eyeballs, and your ad revenue will drop.

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