Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth
by jgtrosh on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:29AM
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I assume YouTube Vanced does the same as NewPipe which only fetches the audio in background mode
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Re:Play audio only on YouTube and save bandwidth
by thunderarea on Friday February 04, 2022 @07:37AM
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Right. "NewPipe does not use the official YouTube API, but instead scrapes the website for video and meta-data such as likes, dislikes, and views.". So it can do it. If they used the YouTube API this would not permitted.