Have you ever used obtainium on Android? If not give it a try for your apps. 

Obtainium can scrape github projects for APK file releases and install them for you. 

Go to the releases page and download the APK file from the latest release. https://github.com/JunkFood02/Seal/releases/tag/v1.12.1 

 Nah, I'm a Google play store maxi now;) 

 I weep :`( 

 at the bottom of the github page there are the releases to download apk, and the app is also on fdroid.
the app doesnt stream, it only downloads video and audio if you put the url of the video (i use it in conjuction with mull browser with ublock0 to navigate yt without ads)... it could not be a drop-in replacement for all use cases 

 Open "Releases" page, click on the APK link, then click through the scary "you're leaving the walled garden, dragons will eat you" warnings.

(F-Droid is better because it updates, but APK from Github works) 

 I did that, didn't work. I tried clicking on the droid thing, it gave me a link that opened itself as a link.

I searched on fdroid, it wasn't that.

You know what did work. The amazing brilliant GOOGLE PLAY STORE. Yay!!! 😋😋😋

It just works. 

No need to do this nonsense lol 

 Guys I think centralisation is actually the best option. Ok goodnight, gonna listen to rain sounds now 🫂🫂😽 

 Centralisation is how you got the Google UI that didn't do what you wanted.

'Night; and happy listening! 

 The problem is we need MORE centralisation.

(I'm just a angry cos my face hurts from pummeling my phone into it). 

 I've had friends who took the same approach to hangovers... 

 I was literally one more apk downloading and never installing away from biting my phone in half 

 I started using LineageOS and Graphene over stock Android bcoz I'm a cheapskate who wanted to keep old phones running :P

Suddenly my phones started doing what I told them to do when I told them. Freaky.

IDK how a trillion-dollar company can make such a buggy and uncooperative OS, but I'm guessing its all in the incentives... 

 Please stop installing my new bff Google. I love Google playstore' 😤😤😤😤 

 This is what happens when nostr doesn't work. It radicalizes toward centralization 🤕
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 Lol I was being bullied by apks 

 strongly agree with your "Yay!!! 😋😋😋" but I dont think mr 🅱️oo🅱️le will be super happy when he will discover that there are apps in his store that are used to bypass his ads, newpipe is already out, other apps would be out if real people would use it 

 Use Google to Google 'grayjay Google playstore' download. Add 'youtube plugin' (YouTube owned by Google).

Avoid GitHub and fdroid, those links don't work.

I joke I joke, but that is literally what I did after multiple failed attempts to avoid Google lol 

 You tried obtanium? 👀 

 As if. People here have over estimated my abilities lol. I literally have no idea how to use GitHub, just to give you an idea of how inept I am. I think if it came to it I would just throw my phone in the river tbh 

 Here, it makes installing from github pretty easy and notifies you whenever there is an update. If you're given an option of multiple versions to select just choose the universal one

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