I have zero (related) academic background and no experience and I want to start off with Swift, and I have a specific "project" in mind, although I'm not sure how long that'll take me, and if it requires skills of a higher level, or not.

• FreeTube

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  An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

  

I'm not knowledgable in this field, thus far, but the way I understand this, the whole point of both NewPipe and FreeTube is that they tend to stay away from Google and YouTube, as much as they can; they let you watch YouTube videos without having your watching habits tracked, no ads, other simple features like enabling background playback, integration of SponsorBlock, and downloading directly to camera roll, in either formats, be it video or audio; they do most of the work locally, on device, by making use of and scraping from the original website without questionable permissions, or by utilizing the Invidous' API, alongside adding other useful features like having a local account, not bound by Google or YouTube's Terms of Services and Privacy Policies, and having the ability to store subscriptions, and other history, all of which is stored locally.

• computer-science

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  :mortar_board: Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science!

  

I think my best bet is to start a course like this, for background knowledge, and then try and work my way through the rest; get into Swift and programming later, (after I am done with this Open Source Society University's Computer Science course, that is), and then the way I see it, everything will come down naturally, to an extent, at the very least.

• SurveyJS

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  Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

I'm not knowledgable in this field, thus far, but the way I understand this, the whole point of both NewPipe and FreeTube is that they tend to stay away from Google and YouTube, as much as they can; they let you watch YouTube videos without having your watching habits tracked, no ads, other simple features like enabling background playback, integration of SponsorBlock, and downloading directly to camera roll, in either formats, be it video or audio; they do most of the work locally, on device, by making use of and scraping from the original website without questionable permissions, or by utilizing the Invidous' API, alongside adding other useful features like having a local account, not bound by Google or YouTube's Terms of Services and Privacy Policies, and having the ability to store subscriptions, and other history, all of which is stored locally.

• NewPipe

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  A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

  

I'm not knowledgable in this field, thus far, but the way I understand this, the whole point of both NewPipe and FreeTube is that they tend to stay away from Google and YouTube, as much as they can; they let you watch YouTube videos without having your watching habits tracked, no ads, other simple features like enabling background playback, integration of SponsorBlock, and downloading directly to camera roll, in either formats, be it video or audio; they do most of the work locally, on device, by making use of and scraping from the original website without questionable permissions, or by utilizing the Invidous' API, alongside adding other useful features like having a local account, not bound by Google or YouTube's Terms of Services and Privacy Policies, and having the ability to store subscriptions, and other history, all of which is stored locally.

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