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PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock

154 points • by Qision • yesterday at 10:55 AM • 75 comments • view on HN

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gchamonlive • today at 4:35 PM

Used through all of the apps and personally there's little incentive for me to not use Firefox/Fennec. The only issue is that background playing is flaky, not sure it only works on my Poco F7 and not my S23, or if it randomly starts pausing the video when leaving de browser or even if it's a browser or OS power saving settings. But when it works it works flawlessly.

In any case, there needs to be a huge problem to justify installing an android app. I prefer to keep them to a minimum and focus solely on the browser. It's the only vendor safe option which I can use to bail entirely on Google's Android or iOS and go some place else.

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Tha_14 • today at 4:04 PM

I have been happily using PipePipe for the past few months and have been very satisfied with it. The developer seems to spend the time and attention needed to make it work again whenever youtube likes to change things and I really appreciate that.

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tancop • today at 5:02 PM

I just use ReVanced. I like shorts and recommendations and don't really care about privacy when most of my feed is football highlights, K&P sketches, gaming channels and random bullshit comedy videos. But having a full open source alternative is still important.

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Cider9986 • today at 6:18 PM

If you want music I've found Metrolist to be the nicest frontend.

https://github.com/MetrolistGroup/Metrolist/releases

elashri • today at 5:51 PM

This app and previously NewPipe is the main thing I miss after moving to iOS. I really can't stand ads (including organic ads that SponsorBlock deal with).

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nh2 • today at 6:07 PM

> Set a sleep timer for bedtime listening

Killer feature!

olexsmir • today at 4:56 PM

Been using pipepiple since December of last year, very happy about the app. The developer seems to care about the project and introduces a lot of quality of life improvments.

satvikpendem • today at 5:01 PM

Why use this over Morphe? You can download from Morphe and it'll skip sponsorship segments too as they all use yt-dlp underneath.

m12k • today at 4:53 PM

Anyone know how PipePipe compares to SmartTube? I recently got a Google TV, and I’m looking for the best alternative YouTube viewer.

globular-toast • today at 3:44 PM

I was curious why NewPipe didn't implement SponsorBlock. Is there a story behind why it doesn't? The repo hints at "differences" but isn't specific.

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JMiao • today at 3:51 PM

is there an equivalent experience for desktop pcs?

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trallnag • today at 4:39 PM

From time to time I get blocked by YouTube and both NewPipe and PipePipe become unusable. I wonder if it has something to do with my internet provider putting me behind a CGNAT proxy

jgbuddy • today at 4:17 PM

Crazy name

simur • today at 4:13 PM

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satvikpendem • today at 3:34 PM

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