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My Opinion: NewPipe, Piped, Invidious, etc's days are numbered. (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.ml to c/technology@lemmy.world
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With Reddit shutting down its API setting a precedent in the corporate tech world (and Reddit was a major outlier in that a ton of their users are technical minded and support third party clients, YouTube does not have that kind of userbase and will not get backlash for it), Twitter doing whatever the fuck they're doing, and Google already hellbent on destroying ad blockers, the days of Newpipe, Invidious, and Freetube are numbered. Wouldn't be surprised if they implement Netflix level DRM tomorrow that makes alt clients impossible. I say savour your alt clients while you can guys, you won't be able to soon.

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[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To be fair, the guy just probably didn't want to become your tech support for life. :P

If you care, you can try this, assuming you meant clients for TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext

[–] Darkhoof@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I use this in my TV and it is amazing. But I won't advertise it anywhere because I'm afraid Google will just come up with a way to kill it.

[–] Worthstream@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I was looking for something like this and banging my head against using Newpipe.

[–] Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Do you mean it's giving your problems downloading or using? Or do you mean you are resisting using it for some other reason? I'm using it right now and I am not techy in any way (I only resisted it because I thought downloading it would take some kind of technical prowess).