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> You know, like how it used to be with RSS.

That, my friend, would be because it is RSS!

IIRC, think NewPipe actually requests the channel pages and parses the html.

It has both. The RSS method is fast but doesn't have the full video data (it's missing durations, for example). The parsed version is slower but complete.

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