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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by grawprog on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:43PM (#23479890)
And newpipe lets you download videos, stream and play them using an external audio or video player, has a built in background and popup player, lacks ads and is open source.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by oehtXRwMkIs on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @01:55PM (#23480021)
And is on F-Droid. Also supports other services including PeerTube. I probably forgot other useful features. Always irks me a little when people recommend Vanced.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by livre on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @07:59PM (#23483607)
> And is on F-Droid

I use F-Droid whenever I can but only for NewPipe I started to actively avoid it. YouTube occasionally changes it's HTML and breaks NewPipe, the app starts crashing and while it usually gets fixed quickly and the apk gets uploaded to GitHub, F-Droid still takes weeks to update it. Last update was about 2 weeks late, that's when I uninstalled the F-Droid version and started installing it directly from the GitHub releases page. Unfortunately for time critical bug fixes F-Droid still has a lot to improve.

A useful feature you forgot is the AMOLED theme. Also subscribing to channels without having to use a YouTube account.

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by sickmate on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @10:07PM (#23484546)
You could add this repository to get the latest github releases: https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/

Some ongoing discussion on this issue thread here. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/1981

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by livre on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @11:34PM (#23484969)
Thank you very much for that! I didn't know they had their own repository.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by moneywoes on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:41PM (#23480567)
What's so good about PeerTube? Never heard of it
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by argiope on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:18PM (#23480310)
newpie is excellent, I switched last year and never looked back. It offers exactly the features, that I as a user want. It made me realize afterwards in how many ways the official app is lacking.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by naugtur on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:58PM (#23482045)
Somewhat related self advertising. I made this tiny tool that lets you take a YouTube playlist or channel and turn it into a podcast RSS that works with any podcast listening app that still supports RSS sources. And the final audio URLs are pointing to YouTube anyway.

https://github.com/naugtur/handsfreeyoutube

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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by lostinroutine on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @03:09PM (#23480861)
Last I tried it, there was no way to sign in and get personalized recommendations. Is that still true (or did I just miss it)?
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by f1refly on Thursday June 11, 2020 @04:53AM (#23486607)
That is by Design. You can add you subscriptions in xml formar and have newpipe fetch the new video list for you, but newpipe will by design not interface with anything google.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by samanator on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @04:56PM (#23482015)
Wow! Thanks for the tip! I've been using YouTube on Firefox mobile in order to avoid the ads. This looks like it could be a better experience.
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Re:You can bypass YouTube ads by adding a dot after the domain by aspenmayer on Wednesday June 10, 2020 @02:21PM (#23480344)
Is there a similar project for iOS?
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