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A great issue for me with NewPipe is the fact that it does not support signing into an account. The developers claim it's a feature that will not be implemented.

Without the great music recommendation system I might as well just listen to my Jellyfin song collection. What value does YouTube even have without recommendations?

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Each person uses it differently. I hate YT recommendations, they just promote whatever pays better, including low quality and simply incorrect content ("science"). All I'm using for years is a flat list of channels. I've been able to remove more from the list, then I add, and still use youtube as a substitute of a TV.

Lack of sign in in NewPipe was a positive change for me.

you are literally the first person I know that enjoy youtube recommendations.

It pushes trash to my feed.

the youtube home page pushes exponentially more trash than the recommendations do though

It pushes trash if you watch trash? For me it pushes more similar stuff of what I already watch.

At least for videos I use google spread sheet script to manage a bunch subscriptions into different private playlists accessible via sharelinks in Newpipe with psonsorblock. Allows me to keep things in sync with youtube account on other devices.

https://github.com/Elijas/auto-youtube-subscription-playlist...

Music I just use the default App and pay for the subscription.

Upgrade to a YouTube Premium family plan for $14.99/mo and have no ads in YT either...

I have no desire to pay 15 for the ability to play videos with the screen off

Especially when it was a feature by default in the Youtube app, then they took it away and put it behind said $15 paywall!

Yeah NewPipe is a privacy oriented client, like FreeTube or Invidious or Piped, so I don't think they will ever implement sign in[1]. In this sense, NewPipe is not a Vanced replacement.

[1] some of these clients have their own sign in, but you are not signing into your actual YouTube account and you don't get recommendations from YouTube.

That's strange, I take steps to explicitly avoid its recommendations.

>What value does YouTube even have without recommendations?

You can watch videos on it that were recommended elsewhere. Like, say, here. Or reddit. That's my exclusive usage of it.

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