Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.

    • clearleafOPEnglish
      101·
      1 year ago

      I did use that for a while. Google was always finding ways to break it. I don’t use youtube on my phone often and when I had newpipe 9/10 times it was broken when I wanted to use it, so it didn’t make it onto my next phone.

      • JPAKx4@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        6·
        1 year ago

        Have you tried revanced? I greatly enjoy it and haven’t had it break on me once. Of course it’s android only, but I think newpipe is too

      • MonkderZweite@feddit.chEnglish
        41·
        1 year ago

        Google was always finding ways to break it.

        ?

        I don’t use it often (what have i the app for anyway) but it always worked when i did.

      • Chev@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        I also have a Pixel but never had a problem that wasn’t promptly fixed.

      • Morgikan@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

        Why install the app when all the same features work in browser?

        This is a pretty fair argument. It reminds me of the early 2010s when the sentiment everyone had was “we have an app for that”. We don’t need more specialized apps (which really aren’t that specialized - most of these do exactly the same thing), we just need intelligent solutions using what we have. Back in the day that was responsive layouts, today it’s browser extensions.

          • moreeni@lemm.eeEnglish
            14·
            1 year ago

            Excuse me, did you even read what you have linked? The first link literally explains the privacy policy of “the NewPipe’s” website.

            Also, what the fuck is even newpipe.app? https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe The GH repo as well as the F-Droid release all link to newpipe.net and I couldn’t find any reference to the .app website there.

          • ilinamorato@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            1 year ago

            The link you’re using here is not telemetry. Telemetry is some sort of reporting on how the app is being used that’s “phoned home” back to the app creators. In the case of NewPipe, as the link you provided shows, there is none of that; and indeed, it only executes enough JavaScript to grab the video download link. Google still records a download, because they own the server (and any access of someone else’s server can be logged), but NewPipe is only sending it (1) the video page URL, (2) an anonymous user-string, required for every web request, and (3) a single, unidentifying query string parameter.

            Some apps don’t even send that much, and you can prove it by checking their source code when available.