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[–] [email protected] 39 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Changelog

New

  • Add comment replies
  • Allow reordering playlists
  • Show playlist description and duration
  • Allow resetting settings

Improved

  • [Android 13+] Restore custom notification actions
  • Request consent for update check
  • Allow notification play/pause while buffering
  • Reorder some settings

Fixed

  • [YouTube] Fix comments not loading, plus other fixes and improvements
  • Solve vulnerability in settings import and switch to JSON
  • Various download fixes
  • Trim search text
[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

These are quite significant improvements. I'll still stick to LibreTube though because proxy

[–] Deckweiss 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

FreeTube is my darling on Desktop

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It doesn't hide your IP so I'd recommend using something piped-based if you need that level of privacy

[–] Deckweiss 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

LibreTube's proxy system has been broken for a month.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

If you check their GitHub, there is an open issue and a very simple fix - enable "Use HLS" in settings. It's as simple as that

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Appreciate it. Thank you

[–] [email protected] 21 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Oh sweet. I thought Newpipe stopped development to work on a rewrite, or am I misremembering? Either way, nice to see comments working again.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I prefer Tubular for reliability+sponsorblock, or LibreTube for Material UI.

[–] Amaterasu 5 points 7 months ago

Same. Libretube is the first that I check, sometimes doesn't work then I go to Tubular.

[–] flyhunter 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

+1 as i use it and its actually updated in fdroid main repo.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is it updated faster than BraveNewPipe?

Cuz BraveNewPipe has sponsorblock and return YT dislike built-in.

[–] flyhunter 1 points 7 months ago

First time hearing of bravenewpipe so I don't know. You can check the git commits and releases though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Same. Tubular is awesome

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Are they going to update it in the main f droid repo now ? Otherwise whatever .

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yes but i'm not interested as fdroid has many features that i like for ex: conforming the builds, inclusion policy, stopping updates if something is changed, removing proprietary builds etc obtainium is just a tool to make getting apps from git or anywhere else easy and not at all as safe ir useful as fdroid for me .

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This is actually pretty based and reasonable, even though the trust issue is not solved but shifted. Take my upvote kind sir.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Thank you here take mine .

Edit : Hey i just rememebered that fdroid now lets devs also check the files they upload are the same that are pushed by the dev so the trust issue is kinda solved as now the dev and fdroid has to be corrupt instead of one and this is the maximum safety we can attain unless we read and built from the source of every app we use which no one do .

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Out on Fdroid now and working

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Refresh your repos, I literally just downloaded and installed it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I did refresh . Also repos ? I was talkin about tge official fdroid repo .

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Oops my apologies, lol I checked and I must have installed the upstream NewPipe repo so long ago that I forgot that I even had it in my sources list. Literally my only repo other than Fdroid main.

No reason not to use it, though, it's the official NewPipe repo:

https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=e2402c78f9b97c6c89e97db914a2751fda1d02fe2039cc0897a462bdb57e7501

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Does anyone know of an active fork with sponsorblock?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (2 children)
[–] I_Miss_Daniel 4 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Can't seem to find this on f-droid or DDG.

[–] Maganra 4 points 7 months ago

Add this repo to your fdroid client: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] I_Miss_Daniel 1 points 7 months ago

Thank you for this. I appreciate your effort.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

PipePipe is on fdroid

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo, which you can access with Droid-ify, which is a fork of f-droid that uses their repos as well.

[–] graymess 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Need a fork of an app that replaces a Google app to get a fork of an app that replaces another Google app.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Turns out I was wrong. :/

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I can use the IzzyOnDroid repo with the regular F-Droid app, am I missing out on or doing anything wrong?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

No, I didn't know that because I learned about them at the same time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Excellent, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Anyone here know how to disable shorts? I could've sworn there was an option to disable it previously, but I can't find it any more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hide the 'Shorts' channel tab:
Settings > Content > Channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'

Hide shorts in feed/subscriptions:
Settings > Content > Fetch channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks! I did that, but it doesn't get seem to get rid of them from "trending".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I see. I don't believe there's currently any way to filter kiosk content by type like that. You could open a feature request for it on GitHub if you'd like (assuming one doesn't already exist).

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Is it still alive? I switched to LibreTube and happy with it.