I just downloaded and have been loving this. It loads pretty quickly, navigation is intuitive, and I'll finally stop forgetting that Nebula exists because it'll all be in my one big subscription feed.

Since I'm new to moving over to open source, I want to ask the veterans: is this as incredible as it seems right now, or is there something I'm missing?

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[–] ADHDefy@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I wonder what the full scope of privacy benefits might be here? Obviously, if you log into your account and interact with videos, YouTube will be able to see that--but are you protected from other forms of tracking? If you don't opt to login, how private is it really? With NewPipe, I know it's completely private, whereas with Vanced, there were some inevitable privacy holes. I'm really curious where this application falls in all of that. It'd be nice to see a breakdown of what this app does and does not do for one's privacy.

[–] lemann@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

I think this app focuses more on following creators you support independent of the platform, for me personally it'll likely replace Nebula, Patreon and SoundCloud

Anything privacy related is a big bonus though.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's not really focused on privacy. It's focused to be independent from the YouTube client so it doesn't matter if YouTube makes their platform worse.