The app is great, but wasn't google recently banning user accounts for it? Youtube account and google account is same thing, so this app is useful only for othwerwise ungoogled users
It directs you to a link on YouTube where you can download your subscriptions (in XML I believe), and then it allows you to import that file. Pretty neat workaround.
Afaik it was 1 person claiming it, with no screenshots if the emails he claimed he got (although if he did lose access to his GMail, it'd be hard to see the emails).
Besides, does Google/YT even specify the reason for bans? Don't they just write something vague?
I don't think that NewPipe even allows logging in... I think it is an alternative to that because it allows one to subscribe to channels without an account.
What he probably meant is that people who are logged into the Google Services with their google account got im trouble for using NewPipe, which to me seems unlikely. I doubt that Google got away with something like that!
Yeah, I'm confused about what people even talking about with logins. That's not a thing. There's no option to login with Google/Youtube on Newpipe, and that's by design. The value proposition, in addition to being a wonderfully designed, lightweight app, is the ability to subscribe, follow channels, view, download video without any Google/Youtube connection.
I wasn't aware of that at the time. Having used it a bit now, some of the choices do baffle me. It has such wonderfully granular control over bitrate and background behavior, but no option to play the videos you tap on without having to hit a separate "play" button after the video is open? Very odd.
How about playlists and history, though? Personally I don't use subscriptions, and have no use for them.
I suppose and app like this could provide a third party (self host able api) account service - recording history and managing/syncing playlists? Maybe with an option to merge in entries from Google account playlists from time to time?
Playlists are nice not just for playing/listening, but also downloading for offline use/backup/archive.
Ed: i see that it has local history and playlists, with option to export data - but apparently no option to load data (whether from youtube/Google or an earlier export).
YouTube once stopped working for me while I was logged in, for a month or two (it might have been because I was using AdNauseum, but I think it was just a problem with whitelisting YouTube's cookies and javascript, the problem went away after changing the latter and not the former). It was great for my productivity!
