PipePipe hard fork from NewPipe adds SponsorBlock and more
PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
PipePipe is an open-source Android app for browsing YouTube and other services. Forked from NewPipe in early 2022, it integrates SponsorBlock for skipping sponsored segments, restores YouTube dislikes, shows original titles, and supports login for restricted content. Additional features include danmaku-style live chat overlays, AV1 and VP9 codecs, background music playback, advanced filtering, and enhanced playlists.
Making a hard fork allows us to effectively address issues with quick fixes and maintain frequent feature updates.
- londons_explore
I want these things to implement peer to peer caching, so that when 10 people are watching the same video, only one downloads from youtubes own servers.
Then it's just a matter of letting people add their own videos directly to the service and it can become fully independent of YouTube.
- aembleton
I've been using Tubular which was a NewPipe fork that implemented SponsorBlock. Works really well, and I was going to see what the differences are. Just noticed, now that Tubular is no longer maintained.
I'll move over to PipePipe now.
- gchamonlive
Used through all of the apps and personally there's little incentive for me not to use Firefox/Fennec. The only issue is that background playing is flaky, not sure it only works on my Poco F7 and not my S23, or if it randomly starts pausing the video when leaving de browser or even if it's a browser or OS power saving settings. But when it works it works flawlessly.
In any case, there needs to be a huge problem to justify installing an android app. I prefer to keep them to a minimum and focus solely on the browser. Browsers are the only OS-vendor-safe option which I can use to bail entirely on Google's Android or iOS and go some place else.
- AlbertoLuna
After trying all the alternatives in the end I settled on self hosting https://github.com/Materialious/Materialious
All the YouTube alternative frontends are so privacy focused that they do not even offer video history in your account.
Having video history is a must for me as I might start watching a video in my computer and then continue on my phone.
Also as it is just a web (and includes support for SponsorBlock) it works everywhere, no need to patch apps or install extensions.
- Tha_14
I have been happily using PipePipe for the past few months and have been very satisfied with it. The developer seems to spend the time and attention needed to make it work again whenever youtube likes to change things and I really appreciate that.
- Cider9986
If you want music I've found Metrolist to be the nicest frontend.
- tancop
I just use ReVanced. I like shorts and recommendations and don't really care about privacy when most of my feed is football highlights, K&P sketches, gaming channels and random bullshit comedy videos. But having a full open source alternative is still important.
- satvikpendem
Why use this over Morphe? You can download from Morphe and it'll skip sponsorship segments too as they all use yt-dlp underneath.