Too hard to tell Newpipe from official apps

[jidanni]

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Currently this app's color is red and white.

By coincidence, those are the same colors that YouTube uses.

Therefore, please choose some other colors!

When using the app, as the app's name does not appear anywhere on the page, I have to double-check that I'm not at that I am not actually using YouTube.

Sure, there are differences between this app and YouTube, but if this app was all blue, it will be easier to tell at a glance what app I'm using.

[triallax]

Each service has its own color which is used when it is open (e.g. YouTube is red, SoundCloud is yellow, Bandcamp is blue). I believe changing YouTube's colors to blue will break this convention, but maybe customization for each service's color would solve this use case.

[jidanni]

I see. In my little world I only use the YouTube part of this app. Maybe having an option, for example, when in YouTube mode, making it red, but with diagonal zebra stripes, would help.

[jidanni]

In fact, with so many parts of the app looking so much like parts of the official website, for instance the subscribe button, you're walking a thin line against one day getting sued by the YouTube Corporation. So I would start to make it look a little different.

[jidanni]

Somewhat related: indywidualny/FaceSlim#25

[XiangRongLin]

In fact, with so many parts of the app looking so much like parts of the official website, for instance the subscribe button, you're walking a thin line against one day getting sued by the YouTube Corporation. So I would start to make it look a little different.

@jidanni You do realize that NewPipe crawling YouTube is a way bigger problem than NewPipe looking similiar to the official app.

[triallax]

@XiangRongLin it's not likely to be a problem (I'm not a lawyer though). See #969 (comment).

[chrstfer]

I think scraping api's that have intentionally been served for the public is implicitly allowed, but thats kind of an unsettled question in US Federal Law.

Back to the matter at hand: Im not fully convinced it actually looks similar enough, but either way i think that for similar reasons to the scraping Newpipe ends up in the clear.

I'm fully, enthusiastically in support of theming though, maybe implementing something similar to how the simplemobiletools.com/ apps can all sync themes.

[CharString]

I have the dark theme set, and they differ like night and day!

[jidanni]

The official YouTube app seems to be in a dark theme when viewing an individual movie too these days...
But it doesn't matter.
I'm not talking about an actual slice in time.
I'm talking about years of accumulated impressions of the official YouTube website and app:
Red, white, black, and their font choices etc.
I swear, especially as there is no "branding on the page" (of Newpipe, in at least some views) I can't be sure of what app I am using, at least at a glance.

[chrstfer]

I find it pretty obvious, but also thats simply gonna happen in an app ecosystem based on a predefined set of design guidelines and libraries/components. I dont think this is really an issue so much as a philosophical discussion and matter of opinion. Newpipe doesn't use any youtube assets or branding, and youtube doesnt own the color red.

[litetex]

I think we should close this issue as there is a ton of negative feedback form the community (17 downvotes + comments).