Android @lemmy.world AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet @lemmy.world 2 wk. ago

NewPipe stopped working?

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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Yes, and it has been fixed. Update to 0.27.1 at least
- For those that don't know, you can download the latest APK directly. It takes a while for new versions to make it to repositories and this lets you get it as soon as it's ready.
  
  https://newpipe.net/#download
  
  Edit: someone pointed out that NewPipe hosts their own F-droid repository, so you can add that to F-droid to get faster updates more conveniently.
  
  https://newpipe.net/FAQ/tutorials/install-add-fdroid-repo/
  
  Or you use Obtainium.
  
  Add the NewPipe repo to F-Droid.
TL;DR from their(newpipe's) reddit:
Youtube did an update that added an additonal parameter to the calls, allegedly as an anti-bot tactic.

Because of how it worked, it broke all of the various frontends, but Invidious based access still worked.
- Thanks
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.
  
  Try the developers fdroid repo, not the official droid repo. The updates take longer to get to the official repo
  
  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.
It broke on ver. 0.27.0; it should be fixed on ver. 0.27.1.
- I mean mine's still freezes mid video from time to time, but that was a problem before 0.27.0 broke.
- You can also use FreeTube for Android, or Grayjay.
  
  Both of them weren't affected by the latest YouTube change.
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.
- One thing about capitalism: companies are never done extracting higher profits. Doesn't matter if users pay for YouTube or whatever, Google will want to increase profits next year anyway.
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 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)

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