It’s by the devloper of New Pipe x Sponsorblock which is no longer maintained.
As an avid NewPipe user I like that it’s an approximately identical tool with more functionality!
It seems like a fork where (I wish) a plugin could (ideally) be in NewPipe. It may also be a nice nod to the original devs to change the default color scheme of the fork so nobody gets confused as to who forked from who.
Overall very cool work! I hope they continue to have success and make progress.
The fork was originally created because upstream NewPipe elected not to include sponsor block functionality.
Why?
Because sponsoring doesn’t infringe on privacy, is usually controlled by the channel, and is often relevant.
Great! Looks like it might be coming to Fdroid soon. I will wait until then.
It is already available on F-Droid through Izzyondroid repo.
Okay cool. For those that don’t know already, you can add a repository by going into settings under repositories and paste in the following: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo
It’s available through a 3rd party repository which you can add to the F-droid app but not in F-droid the distro. Izzy’s repo has its value but it’s not the same as or even really comparable to F-droid.
Worth noting that you can always use Obtanium to “subscribe” to apps released through github.
If its by the developer of NPxSB why not just update that one, or am I misunderstanding something in the title?
iirc NPxSP was getting messy internally, the author went and rewrote a lot of things
I kinda wondered the same thing, but I guess that’s their choice. Wish they had push some kind of notice to the app to let users know to try the new version. As it is, this is the first time I heard of this.
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Thank you for sharing 😁 just migrated my data over from Newpipe x SponsorBlock.
For anyone wondering how to:
In NewPipe x SponsorBlock go to Settings > Content > Export Database, save it, then open Tubular, go to Settings > Content > Import Database, click the ZIP, and it will import all your data from NewPipe (playlists, subs, watched videos, and settings)
Didn’t know about Sponsorblock, cool!
If they could add a kids mode (only play videos from selected channels, exit mode only with a pin) it would be soooo awesome… newpipe said they wouldn’t do it.
I can tell you that if your kids are not too nosey you can achieve something close to it.
It has been a while since I set this up for my kid and we moved away a year or two ago since well, kid got nosey and I moved to selfhosting with Jellyfin, but this should still work.
There are options to remove autoplay, remove comments and show the bookmarked/playlist tab first. I think you can switch off all the other tabs too, so that pretty much the only tab you can see is playlists. And when a video plays there are no weird comments to see and it does not move to the next video.
Now you can make custom playlists of what you want your kid to access and it will look like folders of videos in the app. Just teach your kid how to navigate that and there you go, they can only watch those videos.
Up until they get too curious, the search bar could not be deactivated I think, so if they click there and type random letters they might stumble over random shit. Also, every video has the icon of the channel its from and when you tap it you do get to see all of their content. So you have to check if channels you take videos from are not containing anything adult level. But most cartoon channels don’t so the worst that can happen is that they see cartoons you might not want them to see.
Uh, thanks for the info, didn’t know that I the old app/repo is not maintained anymore.
Very nice. Same UX as NewPipe. All I had to do was install, import my NewPipe content, done. Thank you.
Cool concept but I’d genuinely rather an Invidious proxy integration (like Freetube) over SponsorBlock or bringing back dislikes.
