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?

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Tistron 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Play in background, including with screen off, and ability to download videos to watch on a plane.

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II2II an hour ago | parent | prev | 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).

	▲	mikae1 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> I use it for a chronological feed of my subscriptions. YouTube provides RSS feeds. You could use an RSS reader to subscribe to your channels. I do, it's marvellous. On mobile I use PipePipe for listening to stuff (like presentation videos) in the background and downloading offline audio and video.

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1vuio0pswjnm7 an hour 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 and/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

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DangitBobby 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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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dyauspitr 2 hours ago | parent [-]

What do you mean by pleasant? Is this primarily something for Android users?

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scotty79 an hour ago | parent [-]

Leaner. No ads in layout. Better organized. Not cluttered by buttons nobody asked for.

	▲	mikae1 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		It's a native Android app vs. a bloated multi MB web page. Of course NewPipe and PipePipe are better. :)

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scotty79 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

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.