• timestatic@feddit.org
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      30 days ago

      I don’t like having a google account that has google tracking any video I watch. Also… the recommendations are more addicting and with Tubular (NewPipe fork) and Freetube I just imported my subs and follow them a bit. Never had to deal with the shitty youtube website once. Also, ReVanced still uses the proprietary YouTube apk and I prefer free software on my phone

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        30 days ago

        You’re worried about Google watching what videos you watch, presumably while signed into your Google account on an android phone?

        Unless you’re running Graphene that level of abstraction isn’t much in their way.

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      30 days ago

      My main problem is that freetube perfectly remembers video position, without fail.
      YouTube always fails

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldOP
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      30 days ago

      Never got revanced to work on my phone (in spite of reading all the documentation and online advice, doing literally everything that was supposed to make it work short of jail breaking or changing to Graphene) and as for ublock, I use it but I prefer YouTube on a dedicated client to a browser tab since I usually have far too many of the latter open at a time…

      Besides, unlike revanced, NewPipe worked perfectly out of the box and it seems like PipePipe still does, so…