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A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

81 mentions on Hacker News by 66 people: 11 stories, 70 comments · first 2016-11-29 · latest 2026-08-15

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  1. Or just get it from github. Much faster and no delay in updates. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases
    comment by ffpip · 2020-08-20 · in Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
  2. …innovation for a generic website parser). Another option is ublock origin on Firefox mobile. [0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases [0] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe (a bit slower to update there, but I…
    comment by MayeulC · 2020-08-20 · in Moving from YouTube to PeerTube
  3. Oh they finally fixed the audio desync bug ( https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/3550 ) It was a big pain for me. Made the app unusable.
  4. …Request is still open and it doesn't really look like it will get to be accepted any time soon: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/3205
  5. …to keep the official YouTube app around for occasional use when I want a bigger screen. [1]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/105 [2]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/668
  6. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
  7. …this[1] repository until this[2] issue is solved. [1] https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/ [2] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/1981
  8. …https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo/ Some ongoing discussion on this issue thread here. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/1981
  9. NewPipe blocks Youtube ads on mobile https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
    comment by JSavageOne · 2020-05-20 · in Introducing Facebook Shops
  10. …They have an open issue [0] since a couple years ago, but so far it is not a feature yet. [0]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/668
    comment by j1elo · 2020-05-10 · in Pi-hole 5.0
  11. No - this is likely a hoax. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723#issuecomm...
  12. …ads, and other annoyances, try Newpipe on Android, and SmartYouTubeTV on FireTV / Android TV https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe https://smartyoutubetv.github.io/
    comment by drewg123 · 2019-11-24 · in YouTube’s annoying Premium spam
  13. …account (think Gmail, Docs, etc) banned for watching YouTube without ads via some Android app. [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723 Upd: added link
  14. …unlock recommendations for a while to learn about new channels (I do it once every few months). [0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe [1] https://vanced.app/ , beware of scam sites [2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-video-player/i…
  15. I am not an Android user, nor would I like to have [my Google account suspended]( https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723 ).
    comment by badrequest · 2019-10-15 · in YouTube Regrets
  16. …because of NewPipe". No place to hide. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21247759 [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723
  17. …internet comment with 0 evidence, and thousands of NewPipe using people with counterevidence. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2723#issuecomm...
  18. NewPipe itself is open-source. It's using the OS infrastructure to make requests ( https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/blob/ce17ccad27af0aba... ). One would have to do a deep-read of the implementation of those APIs to know what they…
  19. It's all open source. Not sure what info it is leaking tho. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe#Description
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    “My Google account got suspended because of NewPipe”
    story by nuxdie · 2019-10-14 · 522 comments
  21. Check out NewPipe ( https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe ) to replace the proprietary YouTube client on Android. For Maps, thankfully it still works in Firefox, which entirely relieves me of Google Play Services and their proprietary…
    comment by oil25 · 2019-06-29 · in Freeing My Phone from Google
  22. …It works well and include the ability to easily download audio and play in the background. [1]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases
  23. As result, mobile traffic usage would be increased drastically especially for NewPipe users.[0] [0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/2166
  24. …on mobile there's alternative ways of watching Youtube videos, at least if you're on Android: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe No ads, no direct tracking [1], just videos. [1] Google can still watch your device downloading videos of…
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    TeamNewPipe/NewPipe: A lightweight YouTube front end for Android
    story by axiomdata316 · 2019-01-20 · 0 comments
  26. NewPipe also supports most, if not all, of these features, and it's open source. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
  27. …are clients like Newpipe[1] that directly parse the Youtube website instead of using the API. [1]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/
  28. …make those forms of publishing more widely known about. [1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl [2]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
    comment by cyphar · 2017-08-10 · in Richard Stallman Explains [video]
  29. They're working on it, the plan is to fake subscription by subscribing to channel RSS feeds. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/pull/620
    comment by cyphar · 2017-07-27 · in Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
  30. …(without needing any proprietary libraries), and actually is much better than the official app. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
    comment by cyphar · 2017-07-26 · in Firefox Roadmap for Flash End-Of-Life
  31. Which is also free software, and available in FDroid. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe