Every time I see an unskippable ad, or a second ad, or fuck even 15 seconds of ads, or I just want audio, I open newpipe instead. Hopefully it keeps working.

Fuck Google. Fuck YouTube. Let's build the internet we want and deserve 🥰

Here comes the censorship

I never knew about this. Thanks, Streisand effect.

First time hearing of Newpipe. Looks really good!

I havent used google search in a few years now, duckduckgo for me

Did they backtrack already? newpipe.net is literally the first result when I Google it.

I would condemn Google; but it clearly states that a record label is targeting NewPipe; and not Google.

Is this a very chilling action for Google to take? You bet your ass it is! While I won't blame them outright for this; it is now blatantly evident that Google has stopped spending legal money to defend against DMCA actions against things that they or their parent company Alphabet clearly do not like.

This is a blatant violation of Google and by extension Alphabet's founding ethos; which is to "Do No Evil." The 'Enshittification of Alphabet' has reared it's ugly head again and it's evident that is running through the company unchecked.

I recommend people continue to use projects like NewPipe, Invidious and Piped as well as federated alternates such as PeerTube. I would also urge all large creators to begin archival of their footage on PeerTube itself if possible and to look into spinning up a PeerTube instance for their content to be hosted ON...so that their content does not vanish with Youtube as it steadily "Enshitifies" itself to death. Do this now while the Youtube monetization train is still chugging so that you can get your fans onboard and willing to fund the instance so they don't lose your content.

A note to creators: It will be easier to run off of Patreon and sponsors when on PeerTube; once Youtube has fallen.

FYI: it’s still on GitHub. It’s just the search results removed. Honestly…. I’m unsure why they did go full douche and do a DMCA on the GitHub.

While I agree this is a horrible precedent to set, the real problem we will start to see as this post points out will be the clones popping up pushing malware APKs

Good ol' enshittification. I'm glad that I haven't used Google Search for a couple of years now, things serm to be getting even worse on it than other search engines. Fuck Google.

Tool to bypass YouTube security measures allowing users to illegally download our copyrighted content.

Are there really security measures to avoid downloading youtube videos?

Complaint (Lumen): https://lumendatabase.org/notices/34149383#

DuckDuckGo to another search engine

sorry not sorry

All the links seem to be there for me

Of course I went and redownloaded newpipe because I was reminded of it's existence lol. It's been a pretty good option for a while now. I mean I DO have YouTube premium and almost always use YouTube music for listening to streaming music, but the extreme ease of downloading is always a plus. A lot of the content creators I follow I like to give their videos traffic, but for a download on mobile, works great

Did Google asked for the DMCA against Newpipe? Just wondering.

Honestly I barely use bare youtube anymore, even with uBO enabled.

I can get why those greedy comp trying to fight. THEY CAN TRY

I’m new to this. Is newpipe available on apple?

Removed?? https://imgbox.com/T6Th0mUH

Can newpipe even take legal action? isn't the project itself against YouTube's terms of service? I say this as a newpipe user myself that depends fully on them to watch youtube.

It appears to be resolved now. I'm getting newpipe.net, the Github repo, and the FDroid store entry as the top three hits. I am glad Louis posted this video for attention to the DMCA problem, but it appears that things are not as dire as he makes it out to be.

It has been resolved can search "Newpipe" and I get real site at #1 result.