NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android

Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by chrysoprace on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:36PM (#30450318)

NewPipe is great but it breaks quite frequently due to the use of unofficial YouTube APIs. I tried to get my girlfriend on it because she was annoyed by all the ads but it kept breaking every month. Vanced is nice but a weakness for both is that they can't support casting on a non-jailbroken device (and I suspect the issue won't be solved by jailbreaking).

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by hilbert42 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:47AM (#30450910)

"NewPipe is great but it breaks quite frequently..."

Despite that, NewPipe is incredibly useful, especially if you don't want to Google to violate your privacy.

Given that it violates Google's TOS and that Google is liable to break it by changing YouTube parameters, etc., then it seems to me that we should be tolerant of its foibles.

Given the situation I'm surprised that it works well as it does.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by jraph on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:57AM (#30450991)

Even when using NewPipe's F-Droid repository?

https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by smegma2 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:45AM (#30451401)

Not OP but yeah, it tends to take a day or two after the API break for the devs to put out a new release.

Of course this is understandable though! YouTube is the one breaking the API and the devs react really quickly which is great.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by hiichbindermax on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:30AM (#30452252)

I use the version from the github page. They are updated much faster. So when I realized something broke there is usually already a fixed version up on github.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by poulpy123 on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:32AM (#30453542)

And the GitHub version warn when there is a new version

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by kzrdude on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:08AM (#30456350)

Yes. I'm not sure what I've done wrong but I tried three times or so the last year and never got off the ground with using newpipe, always broken.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by anonymousab on Thursday February 24, 2022 @12:30AM (#30450749)

A more reliable option might be to use Firefox for Android with ublock origin. The site UX is not as good, though.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by tremarley on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:51PM (#30450418)

Me and all of my friends and family have Vanced, I've never heard anyone of them mentioning a casting issue

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by chrysoprace on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:42PM (#30461914)

I'm not the only person with this issue. The maintainer of Vanced said it'll likely never be fixed. [0]

[0] https://github.com/YTVanced/Vanced/issues/688#issuecomment-9...

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by kamokujin on Thursday February 24, 2022 @01:29AM (#30451257)

Yes, I too use Vanced frequently and casting works fine. It also detects and casts to the smartyoutubetv app on my firetv.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by kebman on Thursday February 24, 2022 @04:36AM (#30452741)

I have an Samsung S7 and it works just fine with my non-jailbroken phone. I use it through F-Droid who keeps it updated. I don't use it constantly, though, and I mostly dl contents that I watch offline later when I'm out and about, so that might also affect some differences in usage patterns.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by 4gotunameagain on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:13AM (#30451596)

I have been using it for more than a year, and I have updated it like 3-4 times. Maybe you just got unlucky?

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by kzrdude on Thursday February 24, 2022 @11:07AM (#30456332)

Firefox + ublock origin on android is currently an ad-free experience of youtube. Using it in the website, not the app.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by chrysoprace on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:11PM (#30461633)

Doesn't allow me to cast though, which is the feature I miss most about using these alternative apps.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by kzrdude on Friday February 25, 2022 @01:53AM (#30464369)

The only feature i use is unfortunaly play on Kodi, which works on both through the share (link) feature. Cast.might too.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by warabe on Thursday February 24, 2022 @03:23AM (#30452197)

It is FOSS, so you can contribute to the project in principle... After all, it is free, so I cannot complain.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by xigoi on Thursday February 24, 2022 @02:13AM (#30451598)

That's Google's fault, not NewPipe's.

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by xchip on Thursday February 24, 2022 @05:55AM (#30453305)

This is not true, it broke in the last year only once and they fixed it in a week. Not bad for a free app!

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Re:NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube experience for Android by chrysoprace on Thursday February 24, 2022 @06:12PM (#30461634)

That may have been your experience, but it certainly was not mine.

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