Out of the box it can play audio in the background, and now that extensions are available you can block ads as well. You don’t really need constantly updating 3rd party clients or questionable firewalls anymore if you just want usable youtube on a phone.

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    11 months ago

    I did use that for a while. Google was always finding ways to break it. I don’t use youtube on my phone often and when I had newpipe 9/10 times it was broken when I wanted to use it, so it didn’t make it onto my next phone.

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      11 months ago

      Have you tried revanced? I greatly enjoy it and haven’t had it break on me once. Of course it’s android only, but I think newpipe is too

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      11 months ago

      Google was always finding ways to break it.

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      I don’t use it often (what have i the app for anyway) but it always worked when i did.

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      11 months ago

      I also have a Pixel but never had a problem that wasn’t promptly fixed.