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Hi @npub1zapsats,
Really appreciate you taking the time to try it out and the kind words, genuinely means a lot. And yes please, keep the feedback coming, this is exactly the kind of input that shapes the enhancements.
On video descriptions: No, video descriptions are not in the roadmap currently.
On NewPipe, that's a great comparison to raise, and I would actually frame it less as competing and more as solving different problems entirely:
NewPipe is built for privacy and ownership, no Google servers involved at all, fully de-Googled, which is a fantastic goal for people who want maximum control over their data and don't mind sideloading an APK to get there.
NoSuggest comes at it from a different angle: focus and intentional use. It uses YouTube's actual official player (so creators' views count normally, no funny business there), and leans into being a zero friction PWA, no app store, no install, works instantly on any device. That trade-off opens it up to use cases NewPipe isn't really aimed at, like a classroom or tutor wanting students to see only assigned videos, a parent setting up a locked-down kids mode, or someone at work who just wants YouTube to stop being a distraction machine.
So NewPipe if privacy/ownership is your priority, NoSuggest if the goal is cutting distraction while keeping things dead simple to set up. Different tools for genuinely different jobs, both good to have around like you did.
Thank you.
Another thing I meant to ask, if the video is playing legit, how do you hide the ads?
I know NewPipe have a constant cat and mouse game with YT over the framework of how the frontends mimic
YT change the code to effectively break NP, so I find myself going on a roundabout of different providers when one has worked out the latest fix
Hi @npub1zapsats,
NoSuggest doesn't explicitly block or strip ads, there's no ad-blocking logic in there at all.
The reason it feels ad-free in practice comes down to using YouTube's official embedded iFrame player rather than reverse-engineering the app like NewPipe has to. YouTube's own embedded player serves very few to no ads at all compared to the full app/website experience, that's just how Google has built it, not something NoSuggest is doing on purpose.
So no cat-and-mouse game here, and no chasing patches every time YouTube ships an update. Since it's the real, sanctioned player, there's nothing for YouTube to "break" the way they do with NewPipe's reverse-engineered extraction.
That's actually one of the quieter benefits of this approach: what you see today should keep working the same way tomorrow.
Thank you.
Just had a play with it, very cool 😎
Only question....
You can't see the video description?
NewPipe is very established and does it all but yours is a great addition and I've bookmarked it
Good work 👏