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This is like NewPipe, just more convenient. And you can't find that in the Play Store, right?

Plus, it needs almost weekly updates to function because Google (my guess!) intentionally breaks some API slightly, just to make this sort of thing more difficult.

Not “like NewPipe” in crucial regard.

Care to explain?

The YouTube ToS clearly says players shouldn’t play audio without video (aka background audio).

Does scrapping via youtube-dl make it legal?

I just read through the relevant parts of https://www.youtube.com/t/terms again; nowhere in there does it say you cannot play audio _without_ video. Users with less bandwidth shouldn't be punished :)

Will this feature be in the Android version on Google Play also? I use iOS anyways but am curious. And if you get banned from Google Play, will you guys fight back?