I love the app, but as of late it’s crashing and getting network errors All. The. Time. I’m kinda done bearing through it waiting for it to be fixed. The official app has the same issues.
Any alternatives, preferably with SponsorBlock and YouTube Dislike integrated?
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It also exists at https://pipedvideo/
Libretube is good. But it still in beta. Sometimes videos just don’t play. So i have Newpipe installed as a backup.
i just started using it because of the new pipe crashes, its great.
Gonna have to add to the people shouting out Revanced. It has both sponsorblock and dislike options.
I use ReVanced and love it. Works great, though you do need to do some fiddling to set it up. Once it’s installed, though, it’s just regular YouTube with all the bullshit stripped out. You can even remove features you don’t like, like the Shorts page or the Cast button. And it’s got patches for SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike.
Was thinking to install either ReVanced or LibreTube but I’m not sure if using Google account with ReVanced will get you banned? They say that MircoG prevents that, but where there actually any cases of people getting banned?
I have used Vanced and now Revanced for many years and not had a problem with that
What kind of fiddling? I just installed it from the playstore and it seems to be working fine.
…what exactly did you install? I’d be very weary of installing anything other than official builds from their website/GitHub.
It’d be a good way to get your Google account stolen.
This is the app on in the store: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bimilyoncu.sscoderr.revanced
I have never seen that before but it’s definitely not official Revanced. You should get the manager from here (https://github.com/revanced), download the recommended YouTube apk and patch it yourself.
If your unrooted it involves downloading the APK and patching it with the manager. Can take a little to figure out what patches work or not. Luckily they recently added ‘recommended’ patches to make that a bit easier. It was a bit of a roll of the dice prior
Freetube libretube
Yeah. I’m exclusively Libretube and Piped.video now.
ReVanced includes Sponsorblock.
Libretube - trust me
This is the one. It honestly works better than the first party YT app
If you decide to stick with NewPipe, there’s a community for it here
Fennec fdroid with ublock, sponsorblock, and I haven’t tried the dislike extension but it has pretty good chances of working.
You will probably have to make your own extensions collection on the extensions website.
Legitimately the main reason I prefer NewPipe is because the devs took a stand against Sponsorblock on ethical grounds. Blocking YouTube ads is one thing, actively hurting the content creators themselves is quite another.
Most content creators are just scraping by because Google doesn’t pay them well. Every cent goes to them, without passing through google or harvesting your data. Those sponsorships protect creators in the event their video gets copyright strikes. They’re skippable with literally a single click, maybe two. They are by far the least obstructive and invasive monetization they could possibly do. Going out of your way to download special forked software just to skip those few seconds of completely skippable video, it’s not just shitty, it’s petty.
Taking the moral high ground after already blocking ads, which are pay based on view as opposed to based on segment? Do sponsor pay more based on segment of the video that is watched?
I can see someone who pays from YouTube premium taking this stance, but it is odd making it as though only blocking ads is morally superior to sponsorblock. When both forms are not providing revenue I’m not sure this grandstanding has much weight.
Just FYI paying for Premium gives out money to creators - way more than they’d get if you just watched the ads.
I don’t buy anything based on sponsorships, so my skipping them doesn’t take any money from the creators.
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