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With the NewPipe app, you need to subscribe to everyone and everything you're interested in. It won't use a Watch History algorithm like YouTube to determine what to suggest in your feed. And that's a good thing, because your viewing is anonymous and unsurveiled.

Don't forget to take notice you can download any video. I do this when I anticipate watching in a no-phone-signal, no WiFi area. Or when I want to guard against the video being suddenly deleted from the platform. I typically delete the video off my phone later after I'm done with it.

Downloading is a paid-for YouTube Premium feature, but it's free on NewPipe. Like the old Showbox app (if you remember that), NewPipe will become your new, most valuable app in your phone's library.

# NewPipe.net

Pana - The Refuge Network State 4d ago

Been using NewPipe.net as a YouTube substitute for a bit now and I'm quiet enjoying it! 🥳🎦

1) No ads, just pure video loading 🎥

2) Easy dials to speeden the video up and it remembers the same for all videos you play after 🎛️

3) It continues to play Audio even when I minimize it and open something on my phone browser 🔊

4) Ability to download videos, which will be helpful for the work we do here at Panah 🔽

5) No history = no surveillance, every time you open it, it just opens to globally popular video 🕵️‍♀️

6) Moved the YT app shortcut into a folder of lesser-used apps, replaced it with NewPipe and now its become my default

7) It just looks like the below screenshot all the time, doesn't remember and suggest, which is nice to view your videos privately

#Youtube #EndTheOligarchy #EatTheRich #TheMoreYouKnow #FreedomTech #PrivacyRefuge

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Ankh- Morpok 4d ago

It’s for android only right?

Pana - The Refuge Network State 3d ago

I downloaded it on F-droid, so I'm guessing yes.

But if you're jailbreaking into an Apple device and running another OS, you could try, might be a fun experiment?

Anyway, Apple is deeply compromised, so this is part of my deGoogling and deAppling my life ✂️

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Matthew Kuraja 3d ago

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 3d 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 🫡

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.