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Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number. This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.
NewPipe is great but it breaks quite frequently due to the use of unofficial YouTube APIs. I tried to get my girlfriend on it because she was annoyed by all the ads but it kept breaking every month. Vanced is nice but a weakness for both is that they can't support casting on a non-jailbroken device (and I suspect the issue won't be solved by jailbreaking).
Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number. This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.
I don't log in into YouTube, even on phone, so NewPipe was an improvement for me. I can bookmark videos and subscribe channels in the app. I could do that with bookmarks in the browser but this is more convenient.
[1]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/brook-feed-re...
Some time ago Google made some changes to age verification, and now you can't watch age restricted videos without logging in, which means you can't watch them using NewPipe. It also means you can't watch them without handing over your phone number to Google, because it seems it's no longer possible to create a YT account without a phone number. This whole thing makes NewPipe a lot less useful than it used to be.
[1]: https://mpv.io/
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I have a 5 month old daughter, so I obviously haven't tried it yet, but I'm pretty keen on and have been setting up a Jellyfin on a Raspberry Pi, so that when it's time for her to watch some videos, I want it to be a closed environment. No ads, no pushing of shit but specially, no endless stream of videos. I think what makes it worse is having the world in their hands and just be able to watch 2 minutes and skip. I s…
Have you considered to not let the baby see any videos at all? Apparently there is some research that claims that upbringing like that might still create a bad video addiction. The baby should be focussing on you or other people that are around for socialization, not a screen. I understand if there is no time. Hell, I don't have time. But apparently that's what some psychologists are saying.
that said, we found that putting up a short video to capture the attention of small children is very effective at calming them down while changing diapers for example.
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All you need is Vanced or NewPipe.
Or youtube-dl. Though I've been getting bandwidth-limited lately...
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On top of all this, being logged in is not enough. I just checked right now. You have to verify yourself using either a credit card, or submitting an image of a valid ID, such as your driver's license or passport (I have neither, FWIW). NO THANKS. I cannot tell you just how much I hate this kind of bullshit. This is becoming increasingly common. Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years.…
Twitter won't let you browse more than a handful of tweets before blocking the service demanding you login. I was trying to read an article about gpt-3 and the author had decided to embed tweets with pictures of text on, so not only could I not read the text without right-clicking the image to view on its own then zooming and panning but after a while Twitter would just prevent me from reading any further without log…
Use nitter, libreddit, invidious, bibliogram (is that one dead?) and others.
It's a shame that these big companies seem to suck at making usable websites. They probably chase "conversion" to new accounts at all costs. And that probably works (A/B tested).
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Even when using NewPipe's F-Droid repository? https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
I use the version from the github page. They are updated much faster. So when I realized something broke there is usually already a fixed version up on github.
What about Windows? Is there anything like NewPipe also for Win?