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Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Norgur@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not everyone is using Youtube exclusively on their phones, you know?

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I did not know it was phone exclusive. Seems like a worthwhile reason to get BlueStacks.

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    • SLaSZT@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Why should I use an Android emulator to run an app on PC instead of the many browser front ends for YouTube?

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      • Norgur@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        or an adblocker and tampermonkey for that matter

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      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        People keep complaining about frontends and plugins failing and having to switch strategies, but newpipe works flawlessly.

        It’s less work.

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    • Evkob@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’ll chose to interpret this comment as a joke, but if anyone wants a desktop app for YouTube, check out FreeTube. No ads, subscriptions without a Google account, Sponsorblock integration, videos can be proxied through Invidious if wanted.

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      • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh it’s okay, if your comment is a joke you probably don’t need to write it.

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• GeekFTW@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Because:

  A) New Pipe is a phone app only.
  B) People view YouTube on devices other than phones.
  C) People view more websites than just YouTube, on which they also want to block ads.

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  • ares35@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    the latter is why you just disable the adblocker on specific sites, instead of uninstalling it completely which leaves you open to all the malware infested ads and shit everywhere.

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    • moody@lemmings.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Disable my adblocker? No thank you. I can’t think of anything I’m not willing to abandon if it won’t work with an adblocker.

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      • ares35@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        plenty of users are uninstalling at one site's (yt) demand... instead of just whitelisting instead.

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ew

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• Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’ve yet to get a new pipe link to work on phone or desktop. Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

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  • SparkIT@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I'm confused about "new pipe links".

    Newpipe is an app. Do you have trouble setting it as a default app for youtube links?

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    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That may be it. There’s a bot on lemme thst responds to all YouTube links with piped links, and I’ve tried to follow those directly. I was unaware of an app. Thanks.

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      • SparkIT@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Oh, I didn't know about the bot. So I guess that's Piped (https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) which is a frontend like invidious (https://github.com/iv-org/invidious) and usually when it doesn't work switching instance should do the work.

        Newpipe is a different project: https://newpipe.net/

        On desktop you can also use FreeTube: https://freetubeapp.io/

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  • Varyk@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Apparently newpipe is only on phones?

    But I don’t know, good luck I guess.

    You could grab BlueStacks or some Android sim and then use the app on your desktop, works like a charm.

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