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GrayJay platform player. I use it for youtube only but it has many sources.
https://grayjay.app/
https://gitlab.futo.org/videostreaming/grayjay/
(Not to poop on NewPipe, but this app is better in my opinion, I swapped after their player was bugged for me and I got a bit annoyed on the devs response to not adding SponsorBlock (you can say no to a feature ofc, but he decided to add reasoning that was bad))
@dogs0n It’s not open source
Is that repo not the code or does it have a (bad) license or something?
@dogs0n Yeah the license is not open source. It restricts use, modifications and distributions. I thought people in this community would know what the name of the community means.
Rip. I had a look and have never heard of their license before.
@dogs0n There is now a great collection of all of these openwashing cases: https://isitreallyfoss.com/
Looks like a great resource thank you for the edumacation
I mean yeah technically it’s not FOSS. But the code is open to review and doesn’t do anything shady.
I think the term most would use in this case would be “source available”
Yeah, I never said it’s open source. There are very few puritans who would care about the licensing terms as long as the app isn’t shady.
@spez That’s not what open source means.
Pretty sure the dev did add sponsor block but in another repo/app name. Or maybe it was another dev. Anyway Tubular is new pipe with sponsor block, snd PipePipe is a hard fork with other extras.