• circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
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    3 days ago

    Newpipe can also be used as a full-on replacement to the YouTube app or YouTube in a browser. It allows for background music, or video and audio downloads for offline enjoyment.

    The apk has to be sideloaded, of course.

    • Suite404@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Came here to say this. Newpipe has been awesome. You don’t have to sign in, no ads, can still sub and make a playlist. It’s basically youtube premium and I have had zero issues with it.

    • clb92@feddit.dkEnglish
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      23 hours ago

      Background playback used to be a thing in the official app, but then they obviously couldn’t get as many people to pay for YouTube Music or YouTube Premium or whatever.

    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Look, I usually laugh at audiophiles for being snobs, but getting music from YouTube is gonna make your music sound funny without Internet issues

      Get the music elsewhere if you’re gonna play local files

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    I’m good with ReVanced, thanks.

    Playing YouTube on a mobile browser is finicky at best.

    • Tattorack@lemmy.world
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      3 days ago

      Speaking of, where can I get revanced? There seem to be three different revanced managers floating about…

      • Psythik@lemm.ee
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        2 days ago

        Revanced.app and the GitHub the other person linked to are the only official sources.

        An easy way to tell if you’re using the legit version is if you’re using ReVanced Manager to build the APK yourself. (Don’t worry, it’s easy and straightforward.) If you downloaded an APK directly, you have a fake copy.

      • fungalfelidae5@lemm.eeEnglish
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        3 days ago

        i have it and i think i got it from revanced.app, my house hasnt like exploded yet so that one should be good

        also ublock doesnt like revanced.net for some reason

  • xploit@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    And for everyone else who doesn’t want extra garbage on their phone it’s: switch to ‘Desktop Site’ > continue doing whatever else. This applies to both Firefox and Firefox Focus

    No need promote/install more unnecessary stuff on your phones 🤦

    Edit- that being said, I still include no script/unblock in FF and use FFF for yt videos when I don’t want to clog my Tubular history (newpipe fork with sponsor block) with useless stuff that I’ll never want to rewatch.

  • narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee
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    4 days ago

    For those on iOS: there’s an app called “Vinegar” that replaces the YouTube player with a vanilla HTML5 player that supports background/PiP play without YT Premium.

    Alternatively on iPhones with “dynamic island”, minimize Safari while a video is playing, quickly tap-and-hold the dynamic island area and resume playback. After that you can lock your device and audio will continue playing.

  • Sustolic@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    This functionality is also built into the brave browser on mobile as well (at least on iOS)

    Brave settings -> Media -> Enable Background Audio

  • CyberSeeker@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 days ago

    BE WARNED. These extensions are a prime target for purchase and/or hijacking by malicious threat actors, who then use them to gain persistence on your browsers and steal data. There is no reason to increase your browser attack surface for this feature when better alternatives have been posted in this thread.

    https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/chrome-extensions-with-14-million-installs-steal-browsing-data/

    https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/01/dozens-of-backdoored-chrome-extensions-discovered-on-2-6-million-devices/

    There are dozens of these articles dating back the last five years or so.

    • Vakbrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      3 days ago

      To top up your comment, you can get the permissions required for each extension in Firefox for Android. Extension Manager --> click the extension --> Permissions

      In the case of this specific extension, it requires access to the data of only 3 domains :

      Many other extensions are far worst in regards to permissions that this one.

      It is a good habit to check what are the permissions required before using any extension or phone apps for that matter.

      Thanks for the reminder!

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.ee
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      3 days ago

      I’ve used most of these and quite frankly they are not good. Each of them quit working randomly or wouldn’t play certain tracks and wouldn’t get an update for days or weeks, at which point I’d move on to the next and get exactly the same experience. They’re FOSS apps, and I’m fairly certain Google is to blame for breaking them, but even so if they are unusable for days or weeks at a time I cannot recommend them.

      If you just want a YouTube app with no ads and background playback I would recommend PipePipe. It’s what I’ve settled on after trying everything else, and it’s fantastic. Google breaks it all the time, but updates very quickly bring it back online.

      If you want something FOSS that’s closer to the YT Music experience, I don’t know what to tell you.

      • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        3 days ago

        ReVanced is better, it’s a cracked YouTube app

        I just watched it when it stopped working after 8 months without issue. This is normal for it

      • American_Jesus@lemm.ee
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        3 days ago

        RiMusic is update regularly, no third party player is perfect, even PipiPipe or Newpipe can break suddenly, Google/YouTube don’t like third party apps using their services and are always implementing ways to break apps

    • The Octonaut@mander.xyz
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      4 days ago

      I’m pretty sure extensions can request browsing data for some specific URLs rather than every site you visit. If an extension with functionality on one website asks for access to all of them, then yeah it’s a bad sign.