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Comment by marvion | Hacker News Reader

This. If your problem are ads, background-playing and download - then just go with premium.

I do understand that some apps provide extra features etc. but premium removes ads cross-platform... and since GoogleMusic is included, it replaces Spotify as well(yes, it's different..).

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I think this app caters to a different set of needs. Personally I find the official YouTube app noisy and pushy and offensive. Autoplay and PIP are anti-features I want to avoid. Recommendations are also unwanted.

This alternative looks great to me, on paper at least. I'll give it a go.

Autoplay and PIP can be turned off in settings. PIP is one of the reasons I got premium initially but the ad free experience on all devices is what made me stay.

Defaults matter. I have a lot of devices and I can't be bothered to make every app less awful on every one of them every few months. It's far easier to opt out of the app entirely.

It's likely that most uses actually enjoy autoplay and PIP (I certainly do).

You're saying that you don't pay for Premium and use an unofficial client that does not pay content creators just because it's too much of a hassle to change the two settings that bother you.

Discarding the other reasons (one of them is I only use FOSS on my phone), it wouldn't be worth it for my very occasional use of YouTube...

Well, I'm a paying user (YT premium) but I like features, so I'm using NewPipe.

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