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I’m using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.
And the best part is no ads whatsoever.
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I wish it didn’t use Electron.
Since they are integrating a web browser in the app, it kind of make sense here actually. For code editors though, not great…
Since they are integrating a web browser in the app
are they, though? I thought they just grab whatever data Invidious API fetches and display it with their method of choice, similar to how mobile clients for Invidious and Piped work. PlasmaTube manages to do similar thing without becoming a single purpose web browser.
You may be right, I just assumed. :)
FreeTube uses their own API (Local API) on top of Invidious’ API. you can choose whichever, and the other will be the fallback that’s used.
My lg tv is jailbroken so I have the ad blocked version of YouTube on it, but I was on my Chromecast with Google tv yesterday and decided to go back to the regular YouTube app since I was there.
I was watching a video of 20 minutes in length, and got one 30 second ad at the start; ok fine.
After 4 minutes, they decided to show me a 50 second unskippable ad.
I backed out of the video, and deleted the regular app.
Fuck Google.
How do you jb LG tv?
O blocked my LG TV from Internet long time ago, since I only needed a dump TV screen anyway
😄maybe there is a fun experiment in my near future
Doesn’t sound like you have anything to lose, and you might gain a new skill! Go for it!
The best part about FreeTube unlike other Third-Party clients is that it retains a better YouTube-like suggestions system for any videos you wanna watch next. Discoverability is still a very important thing for me
How does it do it better that yt?
That’s not what they said. They said it’s better than other 3rd party clients because it’s just like YouTube’s suggestions.
I see what I got wrong here, thanks
i constantly gotta swap invidious instances because youtube is being relentless in their war against invidious.
but the ui is awesome and I use it every day.
Invidious is awesome, if possible, self hosting one in docker is great and keeps it up to date
apparently freetube automatically uses a new invidious instance every time it starts up.
It seems to be at random, and many of the instances don’t work correctly. You’re better off finding one that does, and setting it as default.
Or host your own :) less likely to be blocked by Google if it’s just you using it.
How do I go about doing that (finding a good one and setting it up)? Its been a month that either the video loads or it doesn’t and when it does work it is extremely slow to the point I can’t watch on 1080p.
honestly I keep a tab open with the list of invidious instances open. because every day I usually have to change the instance. or swap it around.
invidious is fighting youtube very hard, but youtube is fighting back. so its difficult to keep up with.
i would keep an eye on the invidious instances list. and change to a different one if need be.
Thanks for the reply! Just went through the whole list and none of the instances worked for me. I always get: “[invidious ](SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input)”. Googling the error led me to https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/5506 ← There someone posted an unlisted API that works. It seems non official since it is not listed on https://api.invidious.io/ … is that safe to use? Thanks in advance
No ios not cool
More like using iOS is not cool. At least in the EU they get some more things, but I was trying the other day to show a workmate how to install an ad blocker and it turns out you can’t even install firefox extensions on iOS!
Because outside of the EU all browsers are just safari cosplaying. Inside EU at least Firefox is still just safari
Skill issue
Apparently there’s a browser called Orion that support both Firefox and Chrome extensions
ytliteplus or uyou is great for ios
Using uYou via AltStore and it’s such a better experience. I’d rather stop using YouTube altogether than pay Alphabet to use YouTube without ads. I’m not enabling user hostile behavior to push people into Premium. Screw that.
On iOS I’ve been using
Vinegar - Tube Cleanerby developer And a Dinosaur. It doesn’t replace YouTube as a whole - only the video player. Better interface, no ads.
I would like Freetube 100x more if it had a web UI instead of a non-browser interface. A web UI with a companion extension to automatically redirect YT video links to it could be so seamless.
If it’s hosting a server on the local network that would also provide a perfect solution to not having any way for view history or settings to automatically sync between different devices.
you might like Piped or Invidious with Libredirect addon.
Does it get rid of the ads?
also,
a community I created here on Lemmy.World:
music, but no YouTube no Spotify no Facebook no fru fru
No ads at all.
sounds good then. 🙂
yeah I agree! My wife would hear bitchin me if we would watch something on her iphone as i would constantly point out the fucking ads… I use in on my Fedora but sometimes (like once a month) I have a problem with the invidous instances. I wish there would be something similar to use on android, bu fortunately with Firefox& SponsorBlock it seems to block most of them…
I downloaded Newpipe from the Fdroid app store and it works very similar go freetube
I prefer NewPipe/Tubular so much that I don’t even use my desktop for YouTube anymore.
NewPipe stopped working for me some time ago, switched over to rvx which seems to work fine.
Try pipepipe, they update more often than OG newpipe/tubular
It stops working occasionally but they release fixed versions pretty fast.
Why does it want me to scan my ID? Wtf?
Keep it quiet with the Freetube articles, I don’t want it gone lol.
Youtube/google/alphabet are almost certainly aware it exists already. The only real risk is too many people switching to it.
But even then there isn’t much they can do to stop it’s use. They can’t tighten up or remove their api, but then page scraping will take over. They can obfuscation their page, but that will not work forever.
It’s a cat and mouse game that is impossible to win for them.
You know the same thing was said with Beeper’s imessage on Android pytorch success. “Apple won’t be able to change this. They’d have to change the very nature of imessage itself to block this!” And then, two days later it was blocked completely so, as much as I would hope Google couldn’t block FreeTube, don’t expect such huge successes without tempering expectation.
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I am copying every single url from browser and paste it to Celluloid. That’s how I watch youtube on PC.
I’d argue that Brave is the best way. The adblock is seamless and requires no add-ons, and you retain the full functionality of the site.
Using it for years yes
