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[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

GrayJay platform player. I use it for youtube only but it has many sources.

Grayjay enables you to create and watch video content in your own terms, fully retaining ownership and having control over what you watch. Your content on your terms

https://grayjay.app/

https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/

(Not to poop on NewPipe, but this app is better in my opinion, I swapped after their player was bugged for me and I got a bit annoyed on the devs response to not adding SponsorBlock (you can say no to a feature ofc, but he decided to add reasoning that was bad))

[–] EngineerGaming@retrolemmy.com 1 points 17 hours ago

I find Pipepipe way more convenient for Youtube. However, Grayjay is what I use to have convenient Spotify on mobile.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@dogs0n It's not open source

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Is that repo not the code or does it have a (bad) license or something?

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

@dogs0n Yeah the license is not open source. It restricts use, modifications and distributions. I thought people in this community would know what the name of the community means.

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Rip. I had a look and have never heard of their license before.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@dogs0n There is now a great collection of all of these openwashing cases: https://isitreallyfoss.com/

[–] dogs0n@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Looks like a great resource thank you for the edumacation

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I mean yeah technically it's not FOSS. But the code is open to review and doesn't do anything shady.

[–] chebra@mstdn.io 0 points 1 week ago

@spez That's not what open source means.

[–] zzx@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think the term most would use in this case would be "source available"

[–] spez@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah, I never said it's open source. There are very few puritans who would care about the licensing terms as long as the app isn't shady.

[–] GlenRambo@jlai.lu 2 points 1 week ago

Pretty sure the dev did add sponsor block but in another repo/app name. Or maybe it was another dev. Anyway Tubular is new pipe with sponsor block, snd PipePipe is a hard fork with other extras.