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NewPipe is now available on Flathub (flathub.org)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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[–] 30 points 2 years ago* (4 children)

By "Developer of the Newpipe app"

Hmm....

Unverified

It's a "No" from me. I'll stick to Freetube.

For those unaware, being verified means it is packaged by the official developer/team.

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  • [–] [S] 32 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    If you look at the description you can see that they clearly say that it isn’t official:

    NOTE: This is an unofficial and experimental Flatpak build based on Android Translation Layer. Please report bugs to the ATL bug tracker instead of the NewPipe bug tracker https://gitlab.com/android_translation_layer/android_translation_layer/-/issues.

    Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago

    Don’t know why they’d put “Developer of the Newpipe app” as dev though

    My guess is that they did not want to take credit as the developer of NewPipe itself. As if to say "We did not develop NewPipe, we just packaged it as a Flatpak". There is probably a better way to get that across in the byline, but I believe that is the intent.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    malicious intent

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago*

    One could also think that whoever packaged this was hurried while filling a form, and wanted to provide credit where it was due. So, maybe they were on the best of their intents... We don't know.

    If I were to use this, I would check other apps from same uploader. Or better, see what permissions are being asked..

    In any case, trusting blindly github contributors on teamnewpipe organization is not extremely different.

    Trust and credibility are volatile and freely given. It's youtube, not my bank account ;p

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