“PUTTING NEWPIPE, OR ANY FORK OF IT, INTO THE GOOGLE PLAY STORE VIOLATES THEIR TERMS AND CONDITIONS.”
if you install newpipe from anywhere other than what is listed on their official website, you are not downloading newpipe and may be downloading something malicious. uninstall immediately. I linked the website in the first post because there are people who maliciously insert bad code into all kinds of great apps and then release them somewhere else. there are no ads if you download from newpipe’s github, website, or f-droid entry, through the link in the first post.
if you see someone in this post talking about getting ads on their newpipe install, please consider reaching out to them with this information. I know not everyone will see this, and it really sucks to see so many people finding downloads from somewhere other than the official source I posted and accusing newpipe itself of being malicious.