Here goes all the privacy-friendly ways to watch Youtube.
Well, I guess it's a good thing : now we'll have to campaign to let content creators know how terrible their choice of platform is.
My cousin lives in a place with shitty internet, and regularly creates a list of YT URLs for later downloading when they go in-town. This is going to devastate them. Especially when they need to repair something or do maintenance where a rando’s video is 100x better than the manufacturer’s instructions and they download all the videos.
I do the same thing before a flight or train ride (Canada has $5-$10/gb wireless pricing) so I can catch up with my favourite subs on-the-move.
Newpipe on the F-Droid repo allows for video/audio downloads if they are an android user.
I would have assumed NewPipe used youtube-dl somehwere along the line, and therefore be affected by this new assault on the youtube-dl library.