Dear NewPipe community and other beloved creatures, You might have already noticed this: Searching “NewPipe” via Google will yield plenty information about the project, but a link to the official website is missing. This is because Google submitted to a DMCA takedown notice from a French record label, “Because Music”. The notice demands removing our homepage newpipe.net from their search listings along with a set of other domains completely unrelated to our project. The DMCA takedown notice was published in the Lumen database by Google themselves. While worse things could have happened as the result of such a takedown request, Google’s unlisting of our homepage creates a variety of problems. Given the fact that Google no longer counts visits to our site, it will lose relevance. As a result, websites for fake clones of NewPipe that mimic our homepage will tend to rank higher in the results. This could ultimately cause users to fall for such scams. The team is currently discussing what to do about the situation. We are considering taking legal action. If you are a lawyer and have experience with this and would like to help us, please contact us via email (team(at)newpipe.net). Regards, Schabi
Every time I see an unskippable ad, or a second ad, or fuck even 15 seconds of ads, or I just want audio, I open newpipe instead. Hopefully it keeps working.
NewPipe is one of my favorite apps, it is probably better than Invidious or Piped in my opinion because you don’t have to worry about a server being rate limited.
While I agree this is a horrible precedent to set, the real problem we will start to see as this post points out will be the clones popping up pushing malware APKs
It’s not just the tools you use, it’s the social/economic system those tools create that needs to change. To destroy the current system of profit and exploitation we all need to use different tools. Like crowbars, baseball bats, molotovs… Otherwise the Power and Influence will sell you yet another distraction in form of political discourse or a war somewhere where you choose between imaginary good and evil.
Imagine a federated YouTube that load-balances server to server and every single individual instance was utilized for data storage and playback depending on the location of the viewer.
Everyone pitches in, servers have stats that can be looked up.
Something like Youtube requires way more bandwidth, storage and processing power per user than something like reddit. Which is why they’re trying to make more money.
Lemmy works because it doesn’t take all that much in resources to run an instance, and having single digit percentage of your users chipping in can be enough. A decentralized YouTube would not work quite the same, and you’d have a hard time keeping the creators paid too.
Good ol’ enshittification. I’m glad that I haven’t used Google Search for a couple of years now, things serm to be getting even worse on it than other search engines. Fuck Google.
Of course I went and redownloaded newpipe because I was reminded of it’s existence lol. It’s been a pretty good option for a while now. I mean I DO have YouTube premium and almost always use YouTube music for listening to streaming music, but the extreme ease of downloading is always a plus. A lot of the content creators I follow I like to give their videos traffic, but for a download on mobile, works great
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Every time I see an unskippable ad, or a second ad, or fuck even 15 seconds of ads, or I just want audio, I open newpipe instead. Hopefully it keeps working.
Between SmartTube for my Chromecast, Vanced, and now ReVanced, I haven’t seen an ad or sponsor on YouTube in years.
Revanced ftw
Wait I thought that project was dead???
I don’t know why, but it just doesn’t work for me. Videos keep buffering at 10 sec mark when I’m logged in.
Edit: Thanks for suggestions guys. I updated the manager and microG and repatched and it works now.
You need to download a newer version and repatch
Last time that happened, either revanced or microG was out of date.
Happened to me too. I had to update Revanced, then it worked fine!
Let them make their move. We would come up with some solutions 😜
There’s a Newpipe with Sponsorblock as well btw, on the izzyrepo. It’s so convenient
I never knew about this. Thanks, Streisand effect.
There is also a fork that supports SponsorBlock
NewPipe is one of my favorite apps, it is probably better than Invidious or Piped in my opinion because you don’t have to worry about a server being rate limited.
While I agree this is a horrible precedent to set, the real problem we will start to see as this post points out will be the clones popping up pushing malware APKs
There’s already a malware variant on Google Play (but I don’t know how long it’s been there).
Fuck Google. Fuck YouTube. Let’s build the internet we want and deserve 🥰
It’s not just the tools you use, it’s the social/economic system those tools create that needs to change. To destroy the current system of profit and exploitation we all need to use different tools. Like crowbars, baseball bats, molotovs… Otherwise the Power and Influence will sell you yet another distraction in form of political discourse or a war somewhere where you choose between imaginary good and evil.
Imagine a federated YouTube that load-balances server to server and every single individual instance was utilized for data storage and playback depending on the location of the viewer.
Everyone pitches in, servers have stats that can be looked up.
Imagine it.
Aaaaaand that idea is dead in the water.
Something like Youtube requires way more bandwidth, storage and processing power per user than something like reddit. Which is why they’re trying to make more money.
Lemmy works because it doesn’t take all that much in resources to run an instance, and having single digit percentage of your users chipping in can be enough. A decentralized YouTube would not work quite the same, and you’d have a hard time keeping the creators paid too.
I have servers that are seeding massive torrents 24/7. I have hundreds of terabytes uploaded.
Let me load balance Peertube instances, damnit.
I think you might be underestimating the difficulty in delivering video at the scale of YouTube.
I sense endless buffering… and yet… I want it.
All the links seem to be there for me
To me it shows the GitHub repo (at the top of the results), but not newpipe.net.
First time hearing of Newpipe. Looks really good!
Good to see Streisand in full Effect!
Here comes the censorship
I’m new to this. Is newpipe available on apple?
Android only. Apple doesnt like good things under its umbrella
Kinda…. You need to be jailbroken or trollstore exploit and you can have uYou
I’ve never heard of it until now myself, so I’m curious too.
There is a similar app named Yattee, but it’s not exactly the same. It should still work well to watch videos privately, though.
Good ol’ enshittification. I’m glad that I haven’t used Google Search for a couple of years now, things serm to be getting even worse on it than other search engines. Fuck Google.
Honestly I barely use bare youtube anymore, even with uBO enabled.
I can get why those greedy comp trying to fight. THEY CAN TRY
I havent used google search in a few years now, duckduckgo for me
Same, just the other day I googled piratebay on my friends computer and the original website is just not there. Such censorships are unknown to us
Are there really security measures to avoid downloading youtube videos?
Complaint (Lumen): https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34149383#
FYI: it’s still on GitHub. It’s just the search results removed. Honestly…. I’m unsure why they did go full douche and do a DMCA on the GitHub.
Did Google asked for the DMCA against Newpipe? Just wondering.
Of course I went and redownloaded newpipe because I was reminded of it’s existence lol. It’s been a pretty good option for a while now. I mean I DO have YouTube premium and almost always use YouTube music for listening to streaming music, but the extreme ease of downloading is always a plus. A lot of the content creators I follow I like to give their videos traffic, but for a download on mobile, works great