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

NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

newpipe.net

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

251–260 of 407 posts

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#251

Post by gobip »

5ersi wrote: post #249
r0ckarong wrote: post #248

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's the old problem of I don't care about anything that you advertised to me, don't care about most of the content that is eating your budget and simply won't stand for being called a criminal after being the reason you are a thing in the first place. You're trying to get my money, I'm trying to get your content. We both cheat. That's always been the game.

So if a store is trying to sell products, and you try to steal them, you are both cheating?

If I come to your house, destroy your door, steal your mom's dinner for 4 ppl, are we both cheating?

How about we compare with something actually worth comparing for? For example switching channels when there's the ad break, or turning the sound off, etc.

When I download something, I'm not "stealing it". When I block an ad, I'm not stealing either. I didn't remove 10$ from Google's bank account that was there before.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#252

Post by fwn »

endorphine wrote: post #218
noman-land wrote: post #15

NewPipe is the best. Dunno how people watch YouTube without it. You can also subscribe to channels from it without a YouTube account.

I'm watching fine on Firefox with uBlock Origin. I mean, I don't get ads. What else am I missing by not using NewPipe (I don't care about downloading videos).

The parent wrote

> You can also subscribe to channels from it without a YouTube account.

This means that losing your Google account does not mean losing your playlist.

Big tech accounts can be surprisingly fragile.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#253

Post by alok-g »

sigmar wrote: post #36
wg0 wrote: post #32

If you tube blocks their API, would it be game over for such clients? Or how does it work?

iirc it loads the page as if it were a browser, then scrapes and downloads the video.

What prevents YouTube from sending ad and the actual video in a single video download/stream?

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#254

Post by globular-toast »

iamflimflam1 wrote: post #240

It’s surprising how many people in the comments don’t want adverts, don’t want sponsorship AND don’t want to pay anything for content.

Why would I want to pay for anything? Consumers generally seek the lowest possible price. That's how economics works.

YouTube wouldn't be what it is if it wasn't "free".

I do pay for my internet connection and bandwidth. But obviously I found the best possible deal.

There is the busking model and I do choose to contribute a small amount to a small number of creators that I can tell put a lot of cash and effort into their uploads. But YouTube premium would cost more than all of those and I'd be paying into a monopoly, paying for MrBeast and other worthless crap and no longer paying the aforementioned creators.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#255

Post by kaliqt »

mastazi wrote: post #220
rjzzleep wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LibreTube has a feature that no other piped/invidious client has, which is to have one auth instance and one view instance. Sometimes videos are not viewable on a specific instance, but this way you can keep all your subscriptions and other settings even when switching to a different instance.

> that no other piped/invidious client has, If I understand what you are saying, Piped has this. For example I can stream from instance-1.com but at the same time I'm logged into instance-2.com so that I can keep my favourites and settings. See "Instance" section here https://piped.video/preferences particularly the option "Use a different instance for authentication"

Currently, I think for many users Piped is completely unusable due to errors that consistently occur preventing the video from loading.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#256

Post by curvilinear_m »

Ruthalas wrote: post #142
WaffleIronMaker wrote: post #121

I also recommend GrayJay https://GrayJay.app

What are your experiences with it? Interested to hear a review from a user.

I use it as my main YouTube app on my phone, it's working nice. One drawback for me is the failure if you have too many YouTube subscriptions (>200-300). I removed some creators and it's working fine. You see Grayjay's likes and comments on videos but there are very few of them (you also see YouTube comments and likes). I wish the community around it grew, it has potential.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

#259

Post by mxmbrb »

endorphine wrote: post #218
noman-land wrote: post #15

NewPipe is the best. Dunno how people watch YouTube without it. You can also subscribe to channels from it without a YouTube account.

I'm watching fine on Firefox with uBlock Origin. I mean, I don't get ads. What else am I missing by not using NewPipe (I don't care about downloading videos).

One can't switch to a different tab, out of the browser or lock the phone while continuing listening to the video/podcast/music.
Post reply on HN