| ▲ | Frotag 4 hours ago |
| IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago. I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in. https://invidious.io/ https://materialio.us/ |
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| ▲ | 1vuio0pswjnm7 38 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| "IME newpipe breaks every few weeks or so, presumably because of some youtube change / obfuscation." Same experience. I have a commandline program I wrote to retrieve YouTube download URLs many years ago. On average it has always been more reliable than Newpipe. It continues to work when Newpipe fails and I can fix it quickly when there is a YouTube change However I noticed recently Newpipe, the original, not SponsorBlock, old version, no updates, had been going many weeks without failure. When it eventually failed I was able to get it working again immediately by simply changing the www.youtube.com IPv4 address Will try this again when it fails the next time |
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| ▲ | super256 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I found pipepipe to be more stable, break less and have more features. https://pipepipe.dev/ |
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| ▲ | _blk 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Absolutely but I stop YouTube consumption if it's not through NewPipe, so a little productivity boost here and there is not too bad ;) |
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| ▲ | dyauspitr an hour ago | parent [-] | | What’s the point of newpipe? You can block ads with ublock. You can block shorts with browser extensions. What other benefits does newpipe offer? | | |
| ▲ | II2II 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Personally, I use it for a chronological feed of my subscriptions. It takes less time to find something worth watching, and it is easier to move on to do something else if there isn't anything worth watching. Bookmarking or downloading interesting videos is also handy, since they aren't mixed in with my general bookmarks (in a web browser). | |
| ▲ | 1vuio0pswjnm7 11 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | "What other benefits does newpipe offer?" The Javascript source code for Google's YouTube player and the YouTube website is obfuscated or minified The Java or Kotlin source code for Newpipe is not If one does not like something about Newpipe, one can change or remove it If one does not like something about the YouTube website and/or Google's data collection, surveillance and/or advertising services practices, one can uselessly complain on HN | |
| ▲ | scotty79 3 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It can run in the background. I use it to listen to videos before I fall asleep. Ads would mess up this hard and keeping the screen on would be unnecessary use of energy and OLED. | |
| ▲ | DangitBobby 42 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | Newpipe is more pleasant than YouTube on FF Android with uBlock in my opinion. I often search find a video on YouTube, copy the share link into Newpipe and watch there. | | |
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| ▲ | kyleee 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| I think that is overstating it, there has been one recent breakage and fix in the last few months or more roughly. It would be interesting to see it plotted out on a timeline though. |
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| ▲ | jimlikeslimes 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | I think there was a phase of repeated breakages a while back, but things seem to have stabilised. Fixes are released quickly ime too. | |
| ▲ | truckingthrow33 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I use it to mainly download videos, and that seems to break every few weeks. I just updated and it's fixed. Small price to pay. |
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