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noob question here - i dont know what F-droid is. Is this meant to be installed from the Play Store or do i have to "jailbreak" my android?

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F-droid is an alternative App Store, dedicated to open source software.

You have to enable installing apps from "unknown sources" (an option available in the Android menus, no root required), then install the Fdroid application, and from now on you can revert back the "unknown sources" setting, and use Fdroid to search and install FOSS apps, including NewPipe.

On newer Android versions (8+), you have to allow the specific app from which the install is launched (browser, file manager, third party store, ...). In practice, not that different.

https://developer.android.com/distribute/marketing-tools/alt...

thanks for the very kind explanation.

F-droid is an alternative app store consisting of open source projects. No need for jailbreaking, more information here https://f-droid.org/

cool, thank you very much.

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