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We don't accept feature or bug requests on these platforms. Kindly submit requests only on GitHub.
️ Credits
Readme Design and Banners by XelXen
Readme Screenshots by ARBoyGo
Readme Emoji is from openmoji
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Default App Icon by XelXen
Boosted Bird by Margot Albert-Heuzey
This project is meant to reattach to the official YouTube APIs, to provide a stable, responsive, and fully featured experience. While some people are concerned with Google's tracking, others prefer better algorithmic results when the site has something to work with.
If you care about the minuscule differences in online safety reduced data collection on YouTube can bring, check out the project this is based on.
LibreTube Privacy Schpiel
YouTube has an extremely invasive [privacy policy](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10364219) which relies on using user data in unethical ways. They store a lot of your personal data - ranging from ideas, music taste, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.This project is aimed at improving the users' privacy by being independent from Google and bypassing their data collection.
Therefore, the app is using the Piped API, which uses proxies to circumvent Google's data collection and includes some other additional features.
If you have questions or need help, please make sure to read the FAQ before asking for help at the community channels. The Discord server is considered as the main communication channel, all other forums or social media accounts are maintained by volunteers from the community but not the developer(s).
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Whether you have ideas, translations, design changes, code cleaning or really heavy code changes, help is always welcome. The more is done, the better it gets! Please respect our Code of Conduct in order to keep all interactions and dicussions healthy.
You can open and build the project like any other normal Android project by using Android Studio.
If creating a pull request containing code changes, please make sure to format your code with ktlint --code-style=android_studio -F before.
Please make sure the title of your pull request and the commit messages follow the conventional commit types (e.g. feat: support for xy).
The most common commit types are "feat", "fix", "refactor", "ci" and "chore".
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Any issue avoiding the issue template will be ignored and forced to be closed.
I'd recommend supporting the projects this is based on.
- Donations to the LibreTube maintainer can be made on GitHub or Liberapay
- Donations to the YouTube.js maintainer can be made on GitHub or Ko-fi
Contributions in any form are welcome!
With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you're connected to, which doesn't use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user's IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.
With LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.
Apart from that, Piped allows syncing your subscriptions between LibreTube and Piped, which can be used on desktop too.
OpenTube recognizes the great UI work done by the LibreTube team, but has decided to improve user experience by reversing these privacy changes in favor of responsiveness & stability. All requests will be made directly using your YouTube account via https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js using https://github.com/HarlonWang/quickjs-wrapper, with support for synced subscriptions & keeping your recommendations good. We will also be pursuing feature parity with the official YouTube app, to provide an up-to-par experience.
While OpenTube only supports YouTube, NewPipe also allows the use of other platforms like SoundCloud, PeerTube, Bandcamp and media.ccc.de.
All are great clients for watching YouTube videos. It depends on the individual's use case which one fits their needs better.
LibreTube is Free Software: You can use, study, share and modify it at your will. The app can be redistributed and/or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 3 or later published by the Free Software Foundation.