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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by chrysoprace on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:20PM (#30666779)
As others have noted, NewPipe lacks a lot of functionality, polish, and just generally breaks far too frequently. I'm in the tech industry so I can deal with the app breaking occasionally, but during my stint using it, it was almost every month that it broke. My girlfriend who has some technical knowledge just gave up on it because it was too frustrating that it kept breaking, and not only that, the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid.
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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by lolinder on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:27PM (#30667201)
> the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid.

These days they just encourage you to add their repo to F-Droid. I set it up once and it just works now. I get updates as soon as they're available.

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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by mixmastamyk on Sunday March 13, 2022 @07:56PM (#30667021)
You have to update it every quarter or so when yt breaks it. Never had any other issues.
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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by chrysoprace on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:06PM (#30667080)
I'm glad to hear your experience has been pleasant - ours has been far from it. Imagine telling someone who perhaps doesn't know what an "executible" is, to just allow unknown apps and go to a website and download a different app store (F-Droid), then go to that app store and download a third party app. Then when it breaks, tell them to go to GitHub and download another unknown app because the version on F-Droid gets updated too slowly when they just want to watch a video.
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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by mixmastamyk on Monday March 14, 2022 @01:26PM (#30675255)
I go to its page and click a button, then another to confirm. Definitely doable, if you're motivated.
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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by heavyset_go on Sunday March 13, 2022 @08:43PM (#30667309)
It sometimes breaks because of changes on YouTube's end to prevent people from downloading videos or using 3rd party clients.
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Re:Vanced has been discontinued by yjftsjthsd-h on Sunday March 13, 2022 @09:54PM (#30667707)
> the devs urged users to download from GitHub instead of F-Droid.

F-Droid adds lag to the build+publish process; cutting out the slow middleman is sensible if you want fast fixes.

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