Honestly, Newpipe is perfect for me for the most part. I love it. About the only things I want from it are, in order from most to least,
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The ability to mark multiple videos as watched! (So when I subscribe to a new channel I don’t have to individually mark as watched 50 separate video entries.)
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The ability to read comment replies (to at least one level).
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For Newpipe to stop displaying “Sorry something went wrong” on every. single. video. even though it doesn’t actually fail displaying the video or comments or related videos.
Either way, keep up the good work! <— Not sarcasm, FYI.
I moved to Libretube because newpipe crashes when I try to play a vid fullscreen on my phone running lineageOS. For some reason I have to first toggle picture in picture mode before going fullscreen, otherwise it crashes lol
Excellent news! Now to wait for PolymorphicShade’s SponsorBlock fork to follow suit.
From my experience that takes too long so I prefer BraveNewPipe Link: https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe
Changelog
New:
- Support channel tabs
- Select image quality
- Get URLs to all images
Improved:
- Accessibility of player interfaces
- Better audio selection for video-only downloads
- Option to include playlist and video names to shared playlist content
Fixed:
- [YouTube] Fix getting like count
- Fix player not responding popups and crashes
- Selection of wrong languages in language picker
- Player audio focus was not respecting mute
- Playlist item addition occasionally not working
The ability to download playlists is not introduced in this release.
There is an open feature request for it that is tracked here:
NewPipe#5482
In the meantime, you can use NewPipe in conjunction with Seal to download playlists.
ohhhh, i can browse channel playlists, this is great!! the only feature i’ve been missing from this awesome app
So I’ve been wondering this for a while. Is there a way for Google to associate my usage of Newpipe or similar to my actual Google account? I hate all the ads, but don’t want to lose all of my Google account stuff. I’ve got a lot invested in it.
Especially if you have the same device, IP address or similar, they can correlate this data and fingerprint you that way.
Either use a VPN to minimise data points (shared IP at least) or even better, check the LibreTube and Piped projects.
Based on what? Technically of course all the data points will exist in their system to make those determinations but weather or not they have anything in place or plan to any time soon.
People should find ways to degoogle however and if they are very paranoid about something like this best bet would be to export your subscriptions to a new dummy Gmail just for YouTube.
if they are very paranoid about something like this best bet would be to export your subscriptions to a new dummy Gmail just for YouTube
That too will be linked to your person. Google doesn’t care whether you’re using an account, whether your account has your clear name or what client you’re using. They will use every mean available to them to ID and profile you; that’s absolutely core to their multi-billion dollar business model.
