NewPipe VS nitter

NewPipe

newpipe.net has been reindexed as of this morning!

The Lumen Database page lists only domain names of the URLs in the complaint unless you solve a captcha and enter an email address. The full complaint lists https://newpipe.net/ itself, while the chrome.google.com (and addons.mozilla.org, and store.microsoft.com...) URLs are to browser extension pages, and the Facebook URL is the URL of a post that has a link to a Youtube downloader.

The list generally seems to be a collection of things that range from the websites of Youtube downloaders and interfaces to simply mentions of them, including a Wikipedia page about Youtube downloaders and a Trustpilot page of reviews about a website for one.

Item 9, meanwhile, appears to be a completely unrelated Soundcloud track that isn't even connected to the complaint description, but appears to have the URL of a Youtube downloader in the title.

Newpipe: If you are a basic user, meaning you just want to download videos and audios.

You'll also need a 3rd party app to download YT videos. The default downloader is NewPipe.

It'd be awful if people switched to Firefox, or just installed NewPipe if they have an Android phone.........

YouTube alternative clients (apps): - NewPipe - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads. - NewPipe x Sponsorblock - NewPipe fork that incorporates Sponsorblock. - SkyTube - Alternative Android YouTube app. No account needed, privacy respecting, no ads. - FreeTube - FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. (Uses Local RSS API or Invidious for backend). - LibreTube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android using Piped. - Yattee - Alternative YouTube frontend for iOS, tvOS and macOS built with Invidious and Piped. - Clipious Invidious client for android

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/

I think it uses the same functionality as the guest account feature in the Android app as of now.

Nitter currently uses so called "guest accounts" and a proxy network. Start here if you want more details:

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983#issuecomment-168...

The required proxies are the reason currently only nitter.net is working, but not the other hosted instances.

Nitter - https://nitter.net - https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Youtube, also very skinned down and you can also collapse recommendations by default etc.:

Unfortunately Nitter broke earlier this week thanks to some changes by Twitter: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

I was using a self-hosted Nitter instance for the RSS feeds as I deactivated my Twitter account

You can refer to the full list on the github page[0] (which I find to be pretty accurate). I personally use La Contre-Voie[1] for no particular reason.

nitter.net was historically a little less reliable for me due to rate limiting, which is why I initially switched. They worked around the rate limiting issue now, so that may no longer be the case.

[0] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

[1] https://nitter.lacontrevoie.fr/

For posterity here’s [1] a list of Nitter instances. The flagship one (Nitter.net) always gets overloaded

[1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances

You made it sound like even for a simple site, JavaScript would be a necessity and we should expect websites to not work well without it. I was actually about to concede that it's OK if JS has eaten the world (see my closing thought)...

Then read this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36849820

> you can still view it through https://nitter.net, which I guess makes the open source Javascript-less front-end to Twitter more accessible for SEO

WHAT? I had no idea. So there is Nitter [1] frontend for Twitter -which is a platform immensely more complicated than HN- and they manage to not only work without JavaScript, but have it as one of their core motivations.

Things get even better, from that project I find about Invidious [2], a frontend for nothing else than YouTube! And again, no JS is not only an option but a highlighted feature.

After these discoveries, my bar for how JS-free we should expect most websites to be has just gone up, not down. Especially those websites consisting on just presenting text and media (i.e. the immense majority!)

I agree the war is lost, though. Luckily there will still exist people fighting for a leaner and faster experience. The problem is bloated frameworks and privacy invasion via JS. Those are essentially my main reasons to want to browse the Web without JS.

[1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

[2]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

Agreed! There's a couple of fairly large projects in Nim: https://nimbus.team/ (https://github.com/status-im/nimbus-eth2) or https://github.com/zedeus/nitter

Though there's still friction points I've been happy seeing the ecosystem grow lately. The compiler has seen a lot of bug fixes lately too which helps.

https://nitter.net works, but AFAIK it doesn't have RSS feeds (if that's what you're asking about). For that you need to choose an instance: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances