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Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by toqy »

distances wrote: post #112
kebman wrote: post #108

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious. What do you use as a discovery platform?

I don't particularly want to increase my YouTube time and I don't have a need to find new videos actively, but often some comment for example here in HN suggests a video/channel I do like. Is that what you were asking?

>> what do you use as a discovery platform

> I randomly happen upon them

It answers the question but likely not the answer they were looking for.

Personally I find that YouTube recommends decent content to me based on what I like to watch.

But it’ll recommend garbage to my kids. The problem is that the kids like the garbage.

Beyond that often YouTubers in a certain niche will mention / promote others doing similar stuff.

I do subscribe to premium just to avoid the Prager U and other ads that have no business being targeted at kids in the first place.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by m-p-3 »

foepys wrote: post #9
vincengomes wrote: post #4

One of the biggest strengths of Vanced over NewPipe when i tried them both was SponsorBlock [0] Is there a similar feature available in Newpipe now? [0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

NewPipe does not see themselves as a project focused on blocking ads but as a privacy first project. See their reasoning for rejecting the sponsor block PR here: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/3205 One can disagree with their decision but I can understand why they did this and since somebody offers builds, I don't understand why people are often angry towards the NewPipe maintainers.

There's a NewPipe fork with SponsorBlock support

https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by m-p-3 »

danmur wrote: post #61
vincengomes wrote: post #4

One of the biggest strengths of Vanced over NewPipe when i tried them both was SponsorBlock [0] Is there a similar feature available in Newpipe now? [0]: https://sponsor.ajay.app/

Not trying to make accusations but why would anyone block these segments? Isn't that how the content creator is making a living? I just skip them by hand if they go on and on or I've already seen it or whatever.

AFAIK they get paid by including the sponsored segment in their videos, not by how many viewers specifically watched that segments.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by SeanSpearo »

elric wrote: post #91

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.

You forgot that invidious still lets you watch videos age blocked fine. Gokunaru for instance just made a q & a a few days ago and I watched it on invidious

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by hamsamrma »

kebman wrote: post #136
hamsamrma wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You seem to have misread my comment. There is research claiming that videos are bad for babies. (!) Then it makes no difference if they're calmed down during diaper change. Valium is also calming, but most people are recommended to stay off it.

my apologies then.

i'm sure there is such research, haven't read into it thou. ime no problem if you limit the exposure to video to a few minutes a day. it's basically the modern version of a sockpuppet.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by dfxm12 »

JSavageOne wrote: post #114
kebman wrote: post #106

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.

I've wondered why so much content that used to be in a user friendly web page is now on YT, even if it is more cumbersome to consume. I can only conclude that people think they're going to get rich from YT ads, it's easier to record a YT video than to set up and post to something like Blogger (depending on the production quality, of course), and/or people think YT videos are a valuable portfolio/practice for speaking/being on screen (and see YT as a stepping stone to another job).

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by samfather »

xrd wrote: post #39

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…

Here's an idea: don't let your underage kids on the Internet without supervision.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by branon »

CraneWorm wrote: post #150
toqy wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Never heard of it. Does that work on a child’s iPad and expose videos via an interface that they can navigate?

It's just a command-line tool to download audio/video from youtube (and many other sites). You'd need to setup the iPad thing yourself, maybe using something like Plex?

Consider Jellyfin instead of Plex (doesn't Plex try to push "free" content in addition to what you add to the server?)
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