Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

newpipe.schabi.org

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

351–360 of 614 posts

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

#351

Post by ta1234567890 »

drewg123 wrote: post #18

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 ( ht…

> There seems to be no iOS equivalent, which is one of the things preventing me from upgrading to an iPad.

I use an iPhone 6 and have refused to upgrade iOS to the latest version, so there are quite a few apps that don't work on my phone anymore (when launched, they show a message saying I need to get the latest version of the app, but then I can't get it because it's not available for my version of iOS), one of those apps is YouTube, so I'm limited to accessing it through the browser. It would be great to have a good alternative.

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

#352

Post by techntoke »

megous wrote: post #250
techntoke wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, it has live playback with mpv and you can even use it on Livestreams.

And it can also get around the age block without logging in...

The best part is being able to play videos without the bloat of JavaScript

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

#353

Post by temptemptemp111 »

koheripbal wrote: post #318
1f60c wrote: post #224

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Are YouTube employees raiding HN or something? From the HN Guidelines[0]: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email hn@ycombinator.com and we'll look at the data. (Disclaimer: I'm not a YouTube/Google employee, just someone who cares a lot about preserving the quality of…

Is there a meta area to discuss "astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents and the like", or do we just pretend they don't exist?

Haha... I can't imagine being on the fence about it. I'm used to speaking my mind & getting censored, but the people who are "on the left" are starting to censor each other. "Don't believe you should put healthy children in social isolation because of an invisible thing you've never seen? I'll see if I can get you fired from your job."

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

#354

Post by j-james »

oblio wrote: post #186
dmitrygr wrote: post #162

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fun story: adblock does NOT block youtube ads. It would be almost impossible to - they are served from the same inscrutable urls as real videos. Instead youtube detects adblock and does not show ads to adblock users on purpose. So next time you see a YouTube employee, thank them for that

I can tell you for sure that I've been seeing Youtube ads even though I use uBlock Origin. So they definitely don't try to avoid adblockers.

https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uAssets/issues/7519

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

#355

Post by boogies »

NullPrefix wrote: post #136

The app is great, but wasn't google recently banning user accounts for it? Youtube account and google account is same thing, so this app is useful only for othwerwise ungoogled users

YouTube once stopped working for me while I was logged in, for a month or two (it might have been because I was using AdNauseum, but I think it was just a problem with whitelisting YouTube's cookies and javascript, the problem went away after changing the latter and not the former). It was great for my productivity!

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

#356

Post by xbkingx »

Looks nice, but no ability to set default playback speed means I'll stick with (the rarely updated) Vanced. I never watch YT content at It also looks like it doesn't have the option to login and sync, so I'd be seeing already watched stuff on between desktop and mobile. I understand why some people wouldn't want that, but I use the feature all the time and would like the option.

I might try it as a kind of backup app for things I want to track, but don't want suggestions for (mostly technical videos).

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

#357

Post by rsa25519 »

valvar wrote: post #297
fahrradflucht wrote: post #248

I read a lot of people's experiences here in the thread and I think a lot of you really should give YouTube Premium a try. It solves most of the problems you are describing, while also paying the creators

Sure, if you don't care about free software or privacy.

Free as in beer, or free as in speech? YouTube is a closed platform (server-side), so I personally don't see much moral use of using a libre client.

And I understand wanting a gratis client. To what extent does the cost of YouTube Premium pay for the client versus the creators?

Out of curiosity, if there were a private (but neither libre nor gratis) YouTube Premium client, would you use it?

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

#358

Post by devenblake »

ta1234567890 wrote: post #351
drewg123 wrote: post #18

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 ( ht…

> There seems to be no iOS equivalent, which is one of the things preventing me from upgrading to an iPad. I use an iPhone 6 and have refused to upgrade iOS to the latest version, so there are quite a few apps that don't work on my phone anymore (when launched, they show a message saying I need to get the latest version of the app, but then I can't get it because it's not available for my version of iOS), one of thos…

Why not upgrade to the latest version?

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

#359

Post by chrysoprace »

product50 wrote: post #263
slim wrote: post #160

I hope the developers are here. I'm so grateful for this app and especially the support : Everytime YouTube obfuscates their API to take them down, they quickly publish an updated app that works. please donate : https://newpipe.schabi.org/donate/

I hope you realize that apps like these kill the ecosystem for content creators who are paid based on ads. If you don't like YT ads, pay for the premium version. But suggesting that this app is great is not right. Anyways, I trust if this becomes big, YT will kill them anyways. YT API requires keys and they know exactly what is going on here and can shut it down in a heartbeat if they want to. This is exactly what ha…

I'll grant you the second point but RE: ads, it's my understanding that ad rates are so low on YT that content creators have to resort to product placements in addition to pre-roll ads.

(For the record, I pay for YouTune Premium which directly contributes to content creators on YT).

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

#360

Post by chin123 »

product50 wrote: post #263
slim wrote: post #160

I hope the developers are here. I'm so grateful for this app and especially the support : Everytime YouTube obfuscates their API to take them down, they quickly publish an updated app that works. please donate : https://newpipe.schabi.org/donate/

I hope you realize that apps like these kill the ecosystem for content creators who are paid based on ads. If you don't like YT ads, pay for the premium version. But suggesting that this app is great is not right. Anyways, I trust if this becomes big, YT will kill them anyways. YT API requires keys and they know exactly what is going on here and can shut it down in a heartbeat if they want to. This is exactly what ha…

Except, newpipe doesn't use the YouTube API. Similar to youtube-dl, it scrapes the YouTube webpage for all its functionality. The only way I can imagine YouTube can shut this down is by introducing DRM, at which point I hope people will boycott them anyway.
Post reply on HN