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Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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When it is open source and available on Linux I am sold.

The source is open https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

The source is public. Public source is not open source.

It is not open for me to port, repair, improve, or redistribute to signed and reproducible built distribution channels like f-droid, arch, or debain as I see fit. Honestly really disappointing from a team known for promoting right to repair. I was totally on board with sharing grayjay from the rooftops until I saw the LICENSE file and my heart sank.

Also at a minimum this creates a lack of accountability to prove given binaries came exactly from published code. Someone backdoors the grayjay CI/CD server and everyone gets a backdoored app. Centralized software distribution is irresponsible in a world where supply chain attacks are common.

If they just care about malicious impersonation they should have just done what Mozilla did and file trademarks but leave the code open.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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The source is open https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay

The source is public. Public source is not open source. It is not open for me to port, repair, improve, or redistribute to signed and reproducible built distribution channels like f-droid, arch, or debain as I see fit. Honestly really disappointing from a team known for promoting right to repair. I was totally on board with sharing grayjay from the rooftops until I saw the LICENSE file and my heart sank. Also at a mi…

the source is open, it's just not open source. You can't be pedantic about things they didn't say, and you don't get to retroactively define open to only be definable by OSI.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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The source is public. Public source is not open source. It is not open for me to port, repair, improve, or redistribute to signed and reproducible built distribution channels like f-droid, arch, or debain as I see fit. Honestly really disappointing from a team known for promoting right to repair. I was totally on board with sharing grayjay from the rooftops until I saw the LICENSE file and my heart sank. Also at a mi…

the source is open, it's just not open source. You can't be pedantic about things they didn't say, and you don't get to retroactively define open to only be definable by OSI.

Open source is the only usage of the word open that really matters when it comes to source code and personal freedom, so yes, it is important to be pedantic about this.

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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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).

Subscribing to channels. Trim silences. Various pitch and speed options. Background play. Picture in picture. Watch history. Playlists. NewPipe also plays Soundcloud, Bandcamp, and has the entire media.ccc.de library and can do all those things with those services as well. One of my most used F-Droid apps.

Thanks, convinced - I'll give it a try

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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FYI Google takeout lets you set regular, automatic exports of any of your Google data (e.g. you can have a backup of your YouTube subscriptions, playlists etc emailed to you every month).

> you can have a backup of your YouTube subscriptions, playlists etc emailed to you every month Sent to your gmail account? :D

Any email address you choose AFAIK

Re: NewPipe – Lightweight YouTube experience for Android

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

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

Is there a FireStick / TV friendly version of LibreTube?
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