Comment

DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Not quite - NewPipe is a YouTube client as well. It’s just that it also support PeerTube (a decentralised video hosting solution).

For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous, ad-blocking client. You can import your current YouTube subscriptions using a Google Takeout dump (the NewPipe app gives you instructions) and you can add more channel subs directly in the app.

The benefits are no YouTube ads, and it’s privacy-friendly but with channel subs - you’re escaping the algorithm. To get the latter on YouTube directly, you need to login, which means they’re mining your video watching habits.

source

Sort:hotnew top

FutileRecipe@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

For YouTube, NewPipe is an anonymous…

Not quite. From LibreTube’s GitHub page on their differences:

With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you’re connected to, which doesn’t use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user’s IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.

LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.

Either way, I use a VPN for both.

source
- DeltaTangoLima@reddrefuge.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  You’re right - NewPipe isn’t totally anonymous.
  
  The distinction I was trying to make was that you didn’t have to use a Google/YouTube account. I should’ve made that clearer.
  
  source