Changelog
New
- Add comment replies
- Allow reordering playlists
- Show playlist description and duration
- Allow resetting settings
Improved
- [Android 13+] Restore custom notification actions
- Request consent for update check
- Allow notification play/pause while buffering
- Reorder some settings
Fixed
- [YouTube] Fix comments not loading, plus other fixes and improvements
- Solve vulnerability in settings import and switch to JSON
- Various download fixes
- Trim search text
These are quite significant improvements. I’ll still stick to LibreTube though because proxy
FreeTube is my darling on Desktop
Oh sweet. I thought Newpipe stopped development to work on a rewrite, or am I misremembering? Either way, nice to see comments working again.
Possibly that’s only about changes to the UI, and this is to the extractor. Afaik newpipe’s extractor is used by other projects too, like piped
Does anyone know of an active fork with sponsorblock?
Tubular
Excellent, thanks!
Anyone here know how to disable shorts? I could’ve sworn there was an option to disable it previously, but I can’t find it any more.
Hide the ‘Shorts’ channel tab:
Settings > Content > Channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'
Hide shorts in feed/subscriptions:
Settings > Content > Fetch channel tabs > Uncheck 'Shorts'
Thanks! I did that, but it doesn’t get seem to get rid of them from “trending”.
I see. I don’t believe there’s currently any way to filter kiosk content by type like that. You could open a feature request for it on GitHub if you’d like (assuming one doesn’t already exist).
Is it still alive? I switched to LibreTube and happy with it.