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NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer (flathub.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is really interesting stuff, found it on Hacker News. It's like WINE, but for Android <-> Linux: https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (26 children)

Wow this is awesome! Waydroid is insecure (outdated, rootful container), slow in development and only sandboxed on Fedora.

But that they take Newpipe... which is notoriously broken as Youtube tries to block everything...

Other apps are

OSMAnd~
OrganicMaps
Grayjay
Jerboa, Fedilab, Pixeldroid
Amethyst, Voyage

Those are really unique on Android

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I went from newpipe to tubular since it comes with sponsorblock, but iirc the backend is the same.

No VPN or anything, it works great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Yes with no VPN it will work easier

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

It's most likely watching Youtube with your VPN that's broken then, not NewPipe. Youtube implemented Captchas for IPs that generate a lot of traffic/a lot of people are using. That's how they are trying to kill frontends like invidious that proxy the requests. NewPipe by default uses your own IP so it doesn't have that problem. If you use a VPN IP that a lot of others are using too, you'll get that same problem though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yes I assume this increases many issues.

This might also explain why sometimes the one, sometimes the other app (desktop vs phone) is broken

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