I hope this project gets more contributors to help make it as good or better than Newpipe. Written in Dart using Flutter can allow it to be compiled for Android, iOS and desktop
What’s wrong with Newpipe?
Now new. No replacement . Not best . People learn there should be always options.
iOS !!! Yayyyy
What would make it better than NewPipe?
Why do we need a new Newpipe? There is also LibreTube already which imo is already better than NewPipe as it for example has sponserblock built-in (which NewPipe refused to add).
Tubular is Newpipe with Sponsorblock built in.
Libretube is not working since end of July, no instance
Newpipe, too (if you’re using protective like VPN or Tor). It’s juste the end of private YouTube streaming for now, maybe we’ll find something…
Libretube still works pretty good if you self-host your own private instance. You still need to use HLS though.
Yep ! No-ads, no-sponsor, no-shit.
You even don’t need to self-host, just disable piped proxy, enable local extraction, use HLS and a good VPN.
Sure it’s not as anonymous and sometime I need to disable my VPN, but that’s only temporarily, until they find a new loophole in youtoube’s api.
That’s not piped nor invidious backend’s fault, just YouTube doing his cat and mouse thing…
Why would I use this over Vanced?
Also do you know of any YouTube client that allows me to group subscriptions? Having all my subscriptions in 1 giant feed is pretty useless since I’m usually looking for a specific type of video. I haven’t found any client yet that allows subscription groups, which seems crazy.
Well, newpipe has channel groups for quite a while now.
Revanced and newpipe fill different roles while covering a lot of the same functionality. Revanced is still the YouTube app … Just modified.
There’s a lot of ppl that don’t want the actual yt app for everything that it is. Also this being Lemmy there’s a lot of users looking for open source alternatives for all apps.
Alright this inspired me to actually look into new pipe, which I hadn’t used before. Turns out I’m an idiot because it has exactly this feature.
In Grayjay you can group your subscriptions. https://grayjay.app/
isn’t grayjay still proprietary?
it used to be “see source, but no touch source” when it came out, and now it’s “see source, touch source, no sell source”. Not exactly proprietary, not free as in freedom. Kinda gray zone here, pun intended
Just not necessarily FOSS. The code is available and open to a certain limit. Not free however.
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/-/blob/master/LICENSE.md
So proprietary
Not in the usual sense, because you can still fully fork it, use it, modify it and redistribute it freely like a FOSS software.
You may use or modify the software only for non-commercial purposes such as personal use for research, experiment, and testing for the benefit of public knowledge, personal study, private entertainment, hobby projects, amateur pursuits, or religious observance, all without any anticipated commercial application. You may distribute the software or provide it to others only if you do so free of charge for non-commercial purposes.
The only limitation which make it non-free is :
Notwithstanding the above, you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.
I don’t really understand if it “prevent you” to remove and/or prevent the modification of the donation to FUTO part of the code. Should not prevent you from adding yours on top of it (As in, adding a prompt as in "If you want to do donate to the project, you can donate to the original app owner (DONATE TO FUTO) or the maintainer of the fork you are using (DONATE TO THE MAINTAINER).) And the obvious limitation of making derivative work of it, non-free of course.
Also, they do reserve themselves rights to abrodge the license for those who abridge it, which i don’t know how legally useful it may be, for license violations compared to protecting the GPL licenses from violations for example.
tl;dr : Seems FOSS to me, as long as :
- You don’t try to make it non-free
- You don’t remove the donation to FUTO part of the app
