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What about Windows? Is there anything like NewPipe also for Win?
For the video downloading feature, you can use youtube-dl or one of its forks (command-line, but maybe there is a nice GUI somewhere?)
An alternative to this is to just use youtube in the Brave Browser on mobile. No ads, you can't play in the background but you can play picture-in-picture mode.
A lot of YouTube contents is just talking heads or commentary, but for some reason they don't dual-upload so you can get their stuff as a podcast as well... Some do it, but most don't. That's a major pain for me since I'm travelling a lot. I don't want to waste bandwidth or time on actually watching their stuff, when all I want to do is to listen. But NewPipe solves this rather neatly. Just set up a list of "subs" an…
I wish more talking-head Youtubers would write articles to accompany their videos. I'd much rather quickly skim through an article than have to sit through a 10 minute video.
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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.
you seem to have misread the parent commment in regards to his childs media consumption. 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.
An alternative to this is to just use youtube in the Brave Browser on mobile. No ads, you can't play in the background but you can play picture-in-picture mode.
Does this or Vanced help with the problem I have: my kids are being brainwashed via Google's algorithms? More specifically, I hate that when they watch YouTube it is pushing really shitty content on them. Is there a way with either of these apps to filter out things I don't want them to watch, or perhaps even have a list of things I only want them to watch? I don't think my kids would notice if they couldn't get Ninj…
Actually yes, kind of? At least a little bit.
NewPipe doesn't have parental controls, so if you don't trust your kids to keep these things on, NewPipe can't help you. However, if you do trust kids and you just want a way to remove some of the influences, NewPipe (and NewPipexSponsorblock[0], if you're comfortable using a fork) have some really compelling features:
- You can turn off comments
- You can turn off recommended videos (including "next/similar" sections alongside videos you're watching)
- NewPipexSponsorblock will skip (many) advertisements within videos
- You can turn off search suggestions as you're searching for new videos
- There are some nice feed options that allow you to have much more curated update feeds, so you spend less time searching for videos in the first place.
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However:
- Again, no parental controls. You either trust your kids to use it or you don't, because your kids can go into the settings and just flip all this stuff back on.
- No way to block videos/channels from appearing in search results, which is something I would love.
- No way to do things like get rid of search and only use a feed.
There is talk on the NewPipe issue tracker about adding a blocklist feature, which I think would be a great improvement, but I have no idea what the priority is[1] or when it would happen.
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I'll speak anecdotally here, but I think that even just Sponsorblock makes a huge difference in the Youtube experience, and I advise any parent with kids to use either NewPipe or the NewPipexSponsorblock fork, and I advise them to install Sponsorblock on their desktop browser. I think that getting rid of recommended videos improved my experience dramatically, I think that having better feeds means I spend less time on Youtube in the first place. I have ADD, these are some of the ways I improve my focus and eliminate distractions.
In regards to Sponsorblock, we can get into debates about whether blocking embedded ads inside of videos is moral; I have my own opinions about that but I understand that it can make people uncomfortable. However, I think the gloves come off when we're talking about kids. I don't think there's a moral argument to be made that kids need to sit through sponsored segments and over-long intros and get crud shoveled at them against their will to support Google.
But basically, even though blocking isn't in yet you can still get rid of a lot of Google recommendations and you can get rid of really cruddy surrounding parts to videos like comments/watch-next/etc, and I think that's really helpful for kids.
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[0]: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
[1]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/projects/13#card-3163...
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.
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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…
https://old.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/sew1rn/twitte... For now, this removes the login pop-ups. For mobile use, there's Fritter.