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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by BipolarCapybara on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:40PM (#30445338)
In my expierience New Pipe is lacking. The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious, besides I've found New Pipe breaks often and it won't let me load videos. It's pretty cool for listening to music while the screen is off, but I wouldn't recommend it as a daily Youtube driver.
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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Krasnol on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:43PM (#30445393)
I've never seen it actually "break".

The only times it's not working is because YouTube changed something and you need to download a new version which works pretty good with the appropriate repo in F-Droid.

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by BipolarCapybara on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:20PM (#30445872)
Did they fix that you have to update it only through GitHub?
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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by Krasnol on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @03:24PM (#30445920)
I don't know when this was the case but it hasn't been since I've been using it.

I just added the repo to F-Droid: https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by pmontra on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @05:25PM (#30447426)
It tells me that there is a new version. It downloads it from somewhere and installs it. It could be GitHub but I don't know.
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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by whyoh on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @06:14PM (#30447980)
>The fact you have to reimport the subscriptions manually is very tedious

Why not just use RSS for Youtube updates? Or do you not use RSS at all?

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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by bufferoverflow on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:43PM (#30445383)
As opposed to giving your Google password to Vanced?
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Re:Vanced: YouTube adblocker for Android by mkdirp on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:46PM (#30445435)
You're not giving it to Vanced. It works through Micro G which uses Google's oauth flow to authenticate you.

Anyway, personally I've moved my YouTube account to a dummy account.

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