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YouTube is slowing down for users with ad blockers in new wave (9to5google.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

how do those youtube clients work? i thought YouTube was very closed source

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago

AFAIK NewPipe parses the regular YouTube website and only extracts the useful bits.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

No expert but I believe they access the API directly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago

No,it's exactly parser. https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Some probably use an API of some sort, because SmartTube for Android TV even synchronises your watch history, subscriptions, you login with your google account etc...