Alternative to NewPipe SponsorBlock
Alternative to NewPipe SponsorBlock
I love the app, but as of late it's crashing and getting network errors All. The. Time. I'm kinda done bearing through it waiting for it to be fixed. The official app has the same issues.
Any alternatives, preferably with SponsorBlock and YouTube Dislike integrated?
It also exists at https://pipedvideo/
Libretube is good. But it still in beta. Sometimes videos just don't play. So i have Newpipe installed as a backup.
I'm not sure how piped will be able to handle all the traffic when it gets more popular.
As far as I understand it - piped proxies the traffic between youtube and yourself.
And libretube uses piped in the backend. So all traffic has to go through the piped servers. Not sure if they will be able to scale this up...
Gonna have to add to the people shouting out Revanced. It has both sponsorblock and dislike options.
I'd say Revanced is still a bit more irritating to setup and sometimes has weird errors though.
Freetube libretube
Yeah. I'm exclusively Libretube and Piped.video now.
ReVanced includes Sponsorblock.
Legitimately the main reason I prefer NewPipe is because the devs took a stand against Sponsorblock on ethical grounds. Blocking YouTube ads is one thing, actively hurting the content creators themselves is quite another.
Most content creators are just scraping by because Google doesn't pay them well. Every cent goes to them, without passing through google or harvesting your data. Those sponsorships protect creators in the event their video gets copyright strikes. They're skippable with literally a single click, maybe two. They are by far the least obstructive and invasive monetization they could possibly do. Going out of your way to download special forked software just to skip those few seconds of completely skippable video, it's not just shitty, it's petty.
Taking the moral high ground after already blocking ads, which are pay based on view as opposed to based on segment? Do sponsor pay more based on segment of the video that is watched?
I can see someone who pays from YouTube premium taking this stance, but it is odd making it as though only blocking ads is morally superior to sponsorblock. When both forms are not providing revenue I'm not sure this grandstanding has much weight.
Just FYI paying for Premium gives out money to creators - way more than they'd get if you just watched the ads.
I don't buy anything based on sponsorships, so my skipping them doesn't take any money from the creators.
If you decide to stick with NewPipe, there's a community for it here
Which version are you using? Mine (0.25.2) is still working perfectly well.
OP might be using an old version of the app I think, I'm on the same version 0.25.2 and have no issues.
The previous version was broken AF though, used libretube to get through that period
Fennec fdroid with ublock, sponsorblock, and I haven't tried the dislike extension but it has pretty good chances of working.
You will probably have to make your own extensions collection on the extensions website.
Revanced or Revanced Extended but it requires mMicrog/Vanced MicroG and either Revanced Manager or Termux to compile the APKs.