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NewPipe v0.26.0 released with support for channel tabs (github.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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,

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.)
The ability to read comment replies (to at least one level).
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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Odd, I never had that problem on LOS. Good to know there is Libretube if I need an alternative — thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

There is an advanced setting in NewPipe that fixes it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

You may try LibreTube and see if it works for you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I would like “live” tabs to show previous stream… sometimes search can find it by looking at a channel name, but not always

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Excellent news! Now to wait for PolymorphicShade's SponsorBlock fork to follow suit.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

From my experience that takes too long so I prefer BraveNewPipe Link: https://github.com/bravenewpipe/NewPipe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Oh hey, nice to see this fork expanded a lot since I last looked at it!

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Is it possible to download playlists now?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

The way I currently do it is with yt_dlp on the PC. Would still be a nice feature

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

ohhhh, i can browse channel playlists, this is great!! the only feature i've been missing from this awesome app

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Not Google, but my Instagram account got banned for using Barinsta right before the app got killed.

But I guess I was logging in with my account there, so I suppose they did have the evidence to link it to me.

[+] [email protected] -6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They absolutely can and will do that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's not YouTube that's the problem. I've got the same Gmail account since 2004, and don't want to loose my Google photos. I'm getting the stuff together to self host them all, but am not there yet.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

How do you figure they would go about that?

Banning based of similar IP's / subscriptions is an easy way to get someone false banned due to their 10 year old and force them to switch to Apple products and an AppleID for life.

They will use every mean available to them to ID and profile you; that's absolutely core to their multi-billion dollar business model.

They haven't successfully banned the main accounts associated with those using Google drive for piracy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I don't know what banning you're talking about. The topic I was talking about was user behaviour tracking.

They haven't successfully banned the main accounts associated with those using Google drive for piracy. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am not aware of a policy at Google to ban accounts for storing pirated files. I only know of a policy to restrict the ability to share files with copyrighted content which the user has no license to share but that's an obvious necessity.