I’ve seen many people talk about how they really like using YouTube ReVanced as their main way of watching YT on their phones.
I’ve also seen people talk about NewPipe aswell. Personally, I use NewPipe because I can’t stand the YouTube app, and I don’t want to set up ReVanced for it. I just want something that works.
So to you Lemmy users, which do you use and why? What is about your choice that you like?
I use both in a balanced way.
I save a lot of videos in my custom private youtube playlist. And those logs is saved within my Google account automatically. Nothing happens if I uninstall the app itself by mistake or clear its data.
Whereas in Newpipe, it doesn’t have a gmail account integration feature. Even though, it does have its custom playlist builder setting and also have the option to backup the entire streaming activity and playlists as a whole.
But everything’s gone if someday, by mistake, the app gets uninstalled or its data get cleared without backing up in prior.
The only 1 big reason I use Newpipe is for it’s external download feature. I can download a video as external .mp3, .mp4 and in other formats.
To be fair, Newpipe does almost all the things that Revanced YT provides.
But I just don’t happen to be the kind of guy to create a manual backup every 24 hours just to keep track of what I’m watching. At least, not for now.
Maybe when I won’t be needing to update my watch time with my playlist, then I can fully shift to Newpipe. But Until then…