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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by arcturus17 on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @05:36PM (#28134948)
How do they pull of this off? I’m assuming Google would defend aggressively against these type of clients.
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Re:TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app by j-james on Tuesday August 10, 2021 @07:00PM (#28135871)
Considering NewPipe isn't available in the Play Store or at all on iOS, I'd imagine the number of people using it is small enough that Google doesn't care too much.

Technology-wise, NewPipe builds off of the back of youtube-dl and a custom page parser, and SponsorBlock uses a user-built database of timestamps.

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