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Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by ajvs »

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.

Piped can bypass age restriction (eg https://piped.kavin.rocks instance), it's the new Invidious YouTube FOSS frontend alternative.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by distances »

kebman wrote: post #108
distances wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't use YouTube as a discovery platform. I go search for very specific things, or watch linked videos. I don't subscribe to channels either, if it's something I like I'll go and have a look when I have free time for some videos. I don't know if this is common use pattern or not, but NewPipe is close to perfect for me.

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?

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by amcoastal »

xrd wrote: post #41
rjzzleep wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What about just removing the youtube app from the tablet you give your child?

There are good things on YouTube. And, their friends watch YouTube.

I wish my parents had let the "my friends are doing it" excuse work. You're easy.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by JSavageOne »

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.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by pmontra »

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.

I don't log in into YouTube, even on phone, so NewPipe was an improvement for me. I can bookmark videos and subscribe channels in the app. I could do that with bookmarks in the browser but this is more convenient.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by nxtbl »

jjbinx007 wrote: post #109
johnisgood wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On top of all this, being logged in is not enough. I just checked right now. You have to verify yourself using either a credit card, or submitting an image of a valid ID, such as your driver's license or passport (I have neither, FWIW). NO THANKS. I cannot tell you just how much I hate this kind of bullshit. This is becoming increasingly common. Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years.…

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.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by scotty79 »

distances wrote: post #104
scotty79 wrote: post #103

I really can't watch the 'popular' content of the internet, not personalized to me. I don't want to manually subscribe to channels. It's a lot of manual work intially and later in new content discovery. Is there a 3rd party open source recommendation engine where you might plug in content browser such as NewPipe that would register my clicks, searches, watch time, and could filter content for me and pick suitable cha…

I don't use YouTube as a discovery platform. I go search for very specific things, or watch linked videos. I don't subscribe to channels either, if it's something I like I'll go and have a look when I have free time for some videos. I don't know if this is common use pattern or not, but NewPipe is close to perfect for me.

Great. But there are way more people like me than like you. Which popularity of youtube and tiktok proves.

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by kragen »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #78
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)

All you need is Vanced or NewPipe.

Or youtube-dl. Though I've been getting bandwidth-limited lately...

Re: NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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Post by saurik »

johnisgood wrote: post #98
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.

On top of all this, being logged in is not enough. I just checked right now. You have to verify yourself using either a credit card, or submitting an image of a valid ID, such as your driver's license or passport (I have neither, FWIW). NO THANKS. I cannot tell you just how much I hate this kind of bullshit. This is becoming increasingly common. Call me old and grumpy, but I would much prefer to go back 10-20 years.…

FWIW, I feel like this--age verification for age restricted videos--is probably caused by either a regulation that already happened or a regulation that was threatened and which Google felt safer to define the boundaries of for themselves (not that I think that often leads to sane outcomes).
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