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Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by oakhaven »

crazygringo wrote: post #327

Now that Google is cracking down on adblockers, are any 3rd-party apps like this going to survive? I'm assuming Google's going to do things to break them. Which makes me worried about yt-dlp as well -- sometimes I download educational videos and other useful content I'm worried might get deleted, and with the crackdown on adblockers, I'm worried the ability to download videos will just completely cease to exist.

This. Newpipe is great, but I'm surprised every month to see it working. I can't imagine Google pushing out adblockers and allowing apps like newpipe to work.

Maybe it's not used as much as adblockers yet.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by mrln »

IMSAI8080 wrote: post #273
m-p-3 wrote: post #94

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There is also LibreTube that comes with SponsorBlock https://libretube.dev/

And FreeTube for desktop (just has regular adblock). It's an alternate client with a nice UI with a similar layout to YouTube. https://freetubeapp.io/

FreeTube also has SponsorBlock built in, actually. I highly recommend it!

Also, I would not call it "adblock". It just comes without ads out of the box, just like most comparable apps.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by echelon »

weeblewobble wrote: post #350
echelon wrote: post #332

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This is a good perspective. What did you actually miss? Is your life worse for it?

Might as well skip the whole video!

In the limit: might as well tune out everything and skip life.

The other limit: all things must be consumed exactly as delivered, and we must consume everything we can. (I'll disregard selection / filtering algorithm.)

The healthy medium is to consume, analyze, and synthesize how it makes sense for your particular style of traversing the information topology. Climb the gradients you want. Go as deep or as shallow as makes sense to you.

If you can derive value from skipping video played at double speed, good. If you want to or need to watch the whole thing twice, also good. You do what you need to do. No one prescription fits the bill for all people and all circumstances.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by Funes- »

micw wrote: post #45
DrNosferatu wrote: post #12

Also, checkout NewPipe with built in SponsorBlock functionality: https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe

Honestly, I do not understand why one should use this. I have recently seen some high quality YT videos, each of a length of 30-60 minutes. In those videos where some sponsors mentioned which took only one or two minutes. Seems perfectly OK for me to support the creators. I guess if many people block sponsor content, this kind of vids will die.

>I guess if many people block sponsor content, this kind of vids will die.

Then so be it. I miss when people uploaded videos for the sake of it, not to make money by way of exploiting the users' cognitive vulnerabilities. I remember the days when I could search for a video on how to replace my dirt bike's carburetor and it was less than two minutes, didn't include any ads, and was straight to the point, all first person POV; you wouldn't even see the guy's face. Nobody was trying to get rich off it. It was all about sharing it with other people.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by prmoustache »

Tams80 wrote: post #341
bisby wrote: post #172

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I use sponsorblock on desktop, and sometimes I find the parts that they skip annoying. I don't fully agree with where and when they skip things. Watching Hot Ones today, they had a segment about how they have Hot Ones Hot Pockets now. and it skipped over it. But also, the hot pockets were a big part of the episode. For LTT videos, they skip the entire segue, instead of leaving the segue and then skipping the sponsor.…

While they are aggressive, it is optional and you are trying to avoid their revenue source. So there's reason to be so picky. I just fast-forward or the the sponsorship segments out if they are too annoying.

which is exactly the same wuth sponsorblock.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by [deleted] »

rglullis wrote: post #179
judge2020 wrote: post #108

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Those are the terms YouTube sets out when providing you with the service. You can either pay for it (as the terms set out), watch with ads (as the terms set out), or not watch it. All other use is effectively piracy, and they have the legal and arguably moral* right to block you for not following it. * Yes, it does cost them money to serve and store videos, and no that doesn't disappear with scale. YouTube ingests hu…

> watch with ads (as the terms set out) There is nothing there forcing me to watch the ads, or that forces the user agent (aka the browser) to behave in the way that server running the application wishes to.

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Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by qweqwe14 »

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.

People click on the video for actual content and will always try to remove other stuff.

It's not shocking, it's not surprising, it's pretty rational to do that if you think about it for 2 seconds. This is a solved topic, I really don't understand why people keep bringing this up.

If you are mad about people skipping your boring sponsorship segments — paywall your stuff already or stop complaining. Or better yet, find non-intrusive ways to monetize your content instead of relying on same old methods that became unsustainable years ago.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by zlg_codes »

judge2020 wrote: post #30
tux3 wrote: post #17

If the war on ablockers continues things may escalate, and the next step will soon mean deploying stronger DRM, in the same way that was tried in the fight against piracy. There's a real parallel between the two. Streaming killed piracy for a while because the service was easy and convenient, with everything in one place. Then, streaming added more and more ads all while it became more fragmented. Now if you pay for…

What is it with the disdain for paying for services people use? People often don't feel like paying for it even if they use YouTube more than other streaming services combined. Maybe the issue is that people got so used to a decade of unlimited high-quality videos for absolutely free?

Did you consider there's a population of people outsdide HN who don't make 6 figures and have to budget?

I'm sure there will be lovely things this community has to say about that demographic.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by m4rtink »

actf wrote: post #335
m4rtink wrote: post #80

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SmartTube supports Chromecast/Android TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube

To be clear, it doesn't support casting, which is what the previous commenter was asking for. It runs directly on android tv. The app even says that there is no support for phones or tablets so casting isn't going to work. I also agree that casting is the major missing feature from all these apps. Mirroring might be a substitute for some but, again to be clear, it isn't the same as casting and in most cases the quali…

Sure, but I think thats still a viable workaround - especially as SmartTube plays the video natively on the device with maximum available quality.

Sure, if you have the video link in your phone, you might need to get it to the TV/Chromecast somehow, but I think that is usually manageable.

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