Saw Louis Rossmans original video on the app and figured (and it may well have been) it would be buggy and awful at that point. Decided to gike it a try, the app has all the options I could want for watching youtube, it’s multiplatform to a much greater degree than Newpipe and it’s forks.

The reason I don’t ever expect to go back to Newpipe or Libretube is the plugins update through the app, meaning I can get bypasses to YouTubes bullshit as fast as they’re developed.

Newpipe is usually updated quickly, but in my experience forks like Tubular that include sponsorblocks often delay me from getting that update.

Overall, very good experience so far!

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    When grayjay first came out I was heavily downvoted for saying this, and I’m probably going to be downvoted again, but although grayjay does look pretty good, I’m never going to actually use the app because it doesn’t have light mode, which I use because it is easier on my eyes. It is weird that for such a longstanding app, they couldn’t just add some other styles, but oh well.

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      As a dev, I can assure you that all those small details arn’t as easy to implement as you might think. That one would probably require 1 or 2 hours of work

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    Great app. I often go where there is no connectivity so I can still play music. My only wish was that the resume on play lists is better. It’s kinda guess which song you were last on and you have to tap this dinky link that drops away pretty quick.

    I paid for the app as I’d rather give LR my $$$ than the d!(kh3@ds at Google.

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    It’s kinda BS that I haven’t gotten this yet. Louis is my heckin hero!

    Guys I gotta complain here though. I am the guy who made the very first comment of “is buying isn’t owning, then pirating isn’t stealing.” It was on this video as technol33t: https://youtu.be/tkmOddW1vu8

    On Louis’s latest video he credited and praised someone else who copied my comment! I’ve mostly just been content that nobody would know it’s me and that it’s just cool AF to see something I started go wild. Something about seeing my hero praise someone else for it got me triggered though. I want the credit now!!! Fuuuck me!

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      I completely understand how you feel. My only advice is be happy with movement that you help start. At the end of the day, no one cares who “helped start it”, but you know what’s up. Let your heart be filled and your mind remain alert to the fuckery around us everyday. Cheers hero ;)

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    Someone explain the 10$ price that unlocks nothing and I also don’t have to…pay? Is it not just a donation request at this point? I promise I’m not looking to argue semantics, but how am I, as a user, supposed to see this as a transparent attempt at differentiating from big tech if we don’t call a spade a spade?

    Either way, I like what they’re trying to do, but it all seems too ambitious to pay atm. If they are still fighting a worthwhile and virtuous fight in a year from now, I’ll pay double their ‘current price’