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by Karrot_Kream 1554 days ago
I've found it very flaky in the past. Half the time it can't load a video or it crashes while playing the video. I'd understand if some of the issues came from being throttled the way yt-dl does, but the Android user agent that my phone has (which is the workaround that yt-dlp uses right now to be unthrottled) should present unthrottled downloads. I have a better experience having a service running on my seedbox which downloads and serves a Youtube video than using Newpipe, which says something.
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lolinder 1554 days ago
The app has been very stable for me for years now. It breaks every so often when YouTube changes its APIs, but the devs are quick to update it, so it rarely inconveniences me for long.
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Shared404 1554 days ago
> It breaks every so often when YouTube changes its APIs

Slight nitpick here - NewPipe doesn't use any API's directly, just scrapes the webpage.

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Karrot_Kream 1554 days ago
In my case "in the past" was 6 months ago. After the last bout of instability, I just gave up.
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