Newpipe hasn’t worked on my Android for several days now. Has YouTube blocked the app, or did an update break it?
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I’ve had this problem too but the latest upgrade just fixed it. And yeah, I think it was Google’s doing and it’s not the first time, it’s a constant arm’s race between them and Newpipe programmers. And Ublock programmers. And Invidious and Piped programmers etc…
It’s not showing an update. Maybe I should just uninstall and reinstall. Thanks for the reply.
I did that yesterday, didn’t fix it. I was able to got the update from Newpipe directly today but my Boo had it three days ago, he said he got it from GitHub? No idea how to do that but maybe worth a looksy.
Thanks
They’ve decided to step up the arms race because they’ve hit peak daily user count and the only thing they can promise to the board is force increasing premium memberships. I take it channel “memberships” are also not hitting the numbers they would like and they haven’t destroyed Nebula or Patreon as they’d hoped.
I will never pay for YouTube. The most they’d do is force me to stop using it. I’d be fine using the mobile site, but they’ve gone and intentionally broke that too. I mean, it works, but it’s buggy as shit.
It broke on ver. 0.27.0; it should be fixed on ver. 0.27.1.
You can also use FreeTube for Android, or Grayjay.
Both of them weren’t affected by the latest YouTube change.
I really recommend Revanced or Revanced Extended instead.
As it uses the normal YouTube client but patched.
Just information for anyone who’s interested, use whatever works for you
Unfortunately proprietary and filled with Google trackers (Revanced is FOSS, but it uses the proprietary YouTube app)
It’s working great again.
I reinstalled a few times the first couple days, but I must have done it just before the fix came out two days ago.
You can export your history and then import it after the reinstall.
Oh good call-out about the history
Should be working again? Tubular at least already had an update and I’m pretty sure that would’ve come from NewPipe mainline.
It’s not working for me. I just uninstalled and reinstalled, but no luck. PipePipe works, but it keeps pestering me to enable notifications, so I uninstalled it.
I was using a combination of pipe pipe / freetube. Grayjay has a better interface (imo) and feels way more stable.
I’ll check that out. Thank you.
