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These are quite significant improvements. I'll still stick to LibreTube though because proxy
FreeTube is my darling on Desktop
It doesn't hide your IP so I'd recommend using something piped-based if you need that level of privacy
I already have a VPN
Oh ok then
Oh sweet. I thought Newpipe stopped development to work on a rewrite, or am I misremembering? Either way, nice to see comments working again.
Possibly that's only about changes to the UI, and this is to the extractor. Afaik newpipe's extractor is used by other projects too, like piped
Thanks for the post. Comments hasn't been loading for like months. Just updated and it's fixed.
Why on earth would you want YouTube comments. That's the best thing about this, switching them off.
Jokes aside, happy for you that something you are using is working again.
Sometimes they're useful. I was watching a tier list of swimming caps and the comments happened to ask decent questions and the author was answering them politely.
Watching something that is useful. Like tutorials on working on cars, PCs etc...
Not all of YouTube is garbage. Some of us like to learn things
I prefer Tubular for reliability+sponsorblock, or LibreTube for Material UI.
Same. Libretube is the first that I check, sometimes doesn't work then I go to Tubular.
There is also PipePipe
+1 as i use it and its actually updated in fdroid main repo.
Is it updated faster than BraveNewPipe?
Cuz BraveNewPipe has sponsorblock and return YT dislike built-in.
First time hearing of bravenewpipe so I don't know. You can check the git commits and releases though.
Same. Tubular is awesome
Are they going to update it in the main f droid repo now ? Otherwise whatever .
Are you aware of Obtainium
Yes but i'm not interested as fdroid has many features that i like for ex: conforming the builds, inclusion policy, stopping updates if something is changed, removing proprietary builds etc obtainium is just a tool to make getting apps from git or anywhere else easy and not at all as safe ir useful as fdroid for me .
This is actually pretty based and reasonable, even though the trust issue is not solved but shifted. Take my upvote kind sir.
Thank you here take mine .
Edit : Hey i just rememebered that fdroid now lets devs also check the files they upload are the same that are pushed by the dev so the trust issue is kinda solved as now the dev and fdroid has to be corrupt instead of one and this is the maximum safety we can attain unless we read and built from the source of every app we use which no one do .
Does anyone know of an active fork with sponsorblock?
Tubular
Can't seem to find this on f-droid or DDG.
Add this repo to your fdroid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo
Excellent, thanks!
PipePipe
If you're primarily downloading videos, there's a much better open-source app for that called tydlnis, here: https://ytdlnis.com
If you're using it to just browse, there probably is, but I can't help you there.
Anyone here know how to disable shorts? I could've sworn there was an option to disable it previously, but I can't find it any more.
Hide the 'Shorts' channel tab:
Settings > Content > Channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'
Hide shorts in feed/subscriptions:
Settings > Content > Fetch channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'
Thanks! I did that, but it doesn't get seem to get rid of them from "trending".
I see. I don't believe there's currently any way to filter kiosk content by type like that. You could open a feature request for it on GitHub if you'd like (assuming one doesn't already exist).
Is it still alive? I switched to LibreTube and happy with it.