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Because you do not sign in to NewPipe, your age is not known, and you may occasionally see a fail message that a video you're trying to play is age restricted.

Occasionally, no videos seem able to play. You'll surmise that YouTube has successfully updated its APIs to thwart NewPipe. But then later everything will play fine again.

For those instances when I do not want to wait to see a video, I will long-press a video's thumbnail to select Open In Browser from the popup menu. Then I can play it, but it will be playing via YouTube.com.

Because I may want to still view it anonymously, I use the GrapheneOS Profiles feature on my Android phone. I forget if default Android supports multiple User accounts too. In that (other) User Profile, I never logged into anything Google so my identity is unknown to YouTube.com. You'll see the prompt to view in the YouTube app, but you can just select to Continue In Browser to watch anonymously.

In your deGoogle journey, consider updating the phone's Android operating system from Google's default to GrapheneOS. It will feel scary like you're bricking your phone but is as easy as plugging your phone to your laptop via USB and pressing a couple of buttons on the Graphene website.

Pana - The Refuge Network State 4d ago

1) Yes, I experienced something today where I wanted to skip to a part of the video and instead of jumping in the same video, it opened a pop-up in a new video after asking for "display over apps" permissions, and started playing the same video again, but at the XX:YY minute instead.

2) *very* interested in this GrapheneOS update to my default Google one.

Is there a step-by-step tutorial on how to do this somewhere for us n00bs? Would love to have a second account as opposed to changing my hardware entirely.

Thanks for all the #FreedomTech help 🫡

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Matthew Kuraja 3d ago

After switching from the stock version of Google's Android operating system to GrapheneOS, there's only one feature I've lost. The ability to wirelessly project whatever video is on my phone screen (including audio), to my home's 80" television screen. I think the software to do so is proprietary so GrapheneOS doesn't include it.

As a workaround, our family has an old Samsung S9 phone (also with NewPipe app) that we leave in the living room like a TV remote. When I want to switch watching something on my phone via NewPipe (or Rumble or Tubi) to the TV, I put down my Google Pixel and resume the show with my TV-paired Samsung phone.