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Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by shaky-carrousel »

pedrogpimenta wrote: post #66
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…

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…

I have a Raspberry pi 4, with Kodi, Sonarr, Radarr, Transmission and nzbget for that. I recently added heimdall as a panel to have all links in one place.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by registeredcorn »

CraneWorm wrote: post #141
marcusjt wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You need YouTube Premium to be able to download videos to watch offline (plus see no ads)

WTH, you don't, just use youtube-dl

I strongly recommend checking out yt-dlp. Forked from youtube-dl but has much quicker downloads.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by brady747 »

rryan wrote: post #88
azca wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Proactively this is the only thing that worked: get yt premium, download YouTube videos you preselected, and disconnect the child's device.

* YouTube Kids with allowlist. * App Timer of zero minutes on YouTube app.

In your comment, is allowlist a list of videos only they can watch? (not a list of 'age ranges' or 'channels', but actually being able to select individual videos). I was never able to get something like this out of youtube kids when I've tried it in the past.

All these services curate for kids and I want to choose what my kids watch, so they are all failing me. (I'm with the others who go with YT premium, youtube-dl, kids watch with vlc or something on a tablet).

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by [deleted] »

Pooge wrote: post #124
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.

If you drag'n'drop the URI in mpv [1], you can bypass the age restriction. Not convenient, but if you need it it's very useful. [1]: https://mpv.io/

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Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by sameyepatch »

t0bia_s wrote: post #129

What about Windows? Is there anything like NewPipe also for Win?

Freetube. Breaks every now and then (just like NewPipe when YouTube changes stuff) but it is really useful to track subscriptions and categorize them, and you can have feeds of each category (NewPipe has categorization but you can't set up feeds per category). It's still in beta so a it has still a way to go.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by zibzab »

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…

Short answer: no.

Long answer: I use NewPipe exclusively to watch development videos and it keeps recommending antivaax & alt-right propaganda as related videos.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by madmads »

dfxm12 wrote: post #157
JSavageOne wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

YouTube videos have a much easier time reaching more people. Not only is video easier to consume than sitting down and reading for a lot of people, but YouTube also has a discovery system making your content easier to discover. I also believe it is probably easier to keep a lot of people watching a 10-20+ minute video rather than having them spend that amount of time reading too. The HN crowd might not fall into any of these categories though.

If the content is also just a stream of thoughts, it can be easier for some people to just talk to a camera, edit it down, and put it up as a video. For some people that is easier than having to think about wording, grammar, formatting, etc.

Hosting on YouTube is also free as opposed to hosting your own written website, but of course free hosting for written content exists too.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by irae »

Seems to me that not a lot of people here understood deeply the purpose of the app, and maybe the app itself don't understand youtube deeply either. The app is aiming for privacy and most comments are about ad removal.

What maybe both the comments and app creators might be missing, is that youtube is not only about hosting videos and content creator channels, it is also about content discovery, and that is key for both its success and for the users to make use of the service to its full potential.

I am a Youtube Premium user, I pay via credid card, so I am KYC'd already. But I wish I had something similar on iOS. Not because of ads, but because the Youtube experience is really suffering from having too many developers and focus on kiiling the competion instead of keeping youtube identity. The app is really bloated with experiments like "shorts", which is copying TikTok, and same can be said from the AppleTV or LG TV apps, which now put subscriptions to the botton to force you to click on gaming (twitch clone) and news.

It is really a shame that Youtube, as most rent seeking big companies, can't be satisfied in being the best in one thing, rather trying to be predatory to similar but not quite the same competitors.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by thiht »

If you’re using an Android TV, I’d totally recommend SmartTubeNext over NewPipe. I tried both and the experience is way better. STN also embeds SponsorBlock by default. And it supports YouTube accounts so you can still subscribe to channels properly. You can even cast to SmartTubeNext from your smartphone, from the official YouTube application !
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