Gotta really appreciate @newpipe

Google makes some breaking changes and a day later I can already use my favorite video player again

  • cinnamonTea@lemmy.ml
    15·
    1 month ago

    Thanks for posting this! I didn’t know this community existed until just now, and your post reminded me to check their page to get the new version immediately. And of course, thank the devs so much for fixing it for us all so quickly!

  • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
    72·
    1 month ago

    Yes thank goodness for the NewPipe team. We need them to free us from Google’s monopoly at least a little bit.

    But I do have a suggestion: Grayjay appears to have some sort of plugin system with which they push workarounds for Google’s Youtube shenanigans very quickly. I’m not sure exactly how it works, but I imagine the main Grayjay app framework mostly remains the same, while whatever regular expression or filter needs changing because Google purposedly broke the previous one gets uploaded to everybody quickly and efficiently.

    I would suggest the NewPipe team implement something like that too. They’d have a much easier time than having to recompile the whole thing each time Google plays with their balls.

    • whoareu@lemmy.ca
      6·
      1 month ago

      We need them to free us from Google’s monopoly at least a little bit.

      I don’t understand how using NewPipe could help breaking Google’s monopoly since we are still consuming content from Google’s server. using an alternative service like Peertube, Odysee could help us

      • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
        51·
        1 month ago

        Because you consume Google content but you don’t give as much surveillance data to Google as you would with the official YouTube client spyware, you skip advertisement which denies Google revenue, you can do things like listen to music in the background which are only available for pay in the official client - again denying Google revenue…

        And of course you give Google the finger. Spite is also a valid reason.

        It’s not much but it’s something, and at this point anything that hurts Google delays the inevitable dystopia a little bit - and sadly I’m afraid it’s a little too late to hope for much more now.

        • ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org
          1·
          1 month ago

          Peertube is great but it will never amount to anything until you can perform meaningful video and channel searches on it. At the moment, search is virtually nonexistent: you have to know what you’re looking for exactly to finds something.