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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SLaSZT@kbin.social 9 months agoWhy should I use an Android emulator to run an app on PC instead of the many browser front ends for YouTube?
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
SLaSZT@kbin.social 9 months ago
I've never had that issue with Piped or Invidious, though sometimes I've had a specific instance not load
However, I've had numerous issues with Bluestacks and it's a huge memory hog, not to mention it's overkill to install an entire OS just for 1 singular purpose that can be done just fine on your native OS.
It's a layer of abstraction that's almost entirely unnecessary except for 1 use case: watching YouTube without ads.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
It’s five clicks. That’s not a big issue for most people.
Calling it an entire os or a layer of abstraction doesn’t negate the fact that it takes 5 minutes to set up and five clicks, and then it works perpetually.
It’s probably more trouble to set up some of these plugins and frontends.
Also once you have any emulator installed, you can use all of your favorite apps straight on your desktop.
It’s extremely convenient.
SLaSZT@kbin.social 9 months ago
Toribor@corndog.social 9 months ago
Not if you have to run an entire android emulator to access it.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 9 months ago
Haha, an “an entire Android emulator”?
You click twice to install it.
Click twice to install any app.
Click once to use the app perpetually.
That’s not as much work as you’re pretending it is.
Toribor@corndog.social 9 months ago
It’s more work than using an alternate front end in the browser… of which there are plenty of excellent options… all which are optimized for use on desktop. But you do you I guess.
Norgur@kbin.social 9 months ago
or an adblocker and tampermonkey for that matter