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.

    • @Pringles@lemm.ee
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      27 months ago

      NewPipe stopped working for me some time ago, switched over to rvx which seems to work fine.

      • lemmyvore
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        167 months ago

        It stops working occasionally but they release fixed versions pretty fast.

      • bruhduh
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        27 months ago

        Try pipepipe, they update more often than OG newpipe/tubular

    • @Nima@leminal.space
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      i would like to say I prefer Newpipe, but those guys have a pretty annoying bug that’s been going on for years now and it’s still not been fixed.

      If you watch a video and then go back to a list and scroll up to the top, the app crashes.

    • @jetliswar@lemmy.world
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      Ive been using it for years now and holy shit. Even if it doesnt blocked ads and even youtubers own ads, the app itself is FAR superior than anything what this vanilla youtube app is supposed to be.

      • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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        167 months ago

        Even if it doesnt blocked ads and even youtubers own ads

        You mean even if it didn’t? Because it definitely DOES and you’re absolutely right about the rest

        • @jetliswar@lemmy.world
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          Yes thats what i mean. Even if it didnt then still the app is SUPERIOR IN EVERY WAY than vanilla youtube. But it does block everything. Its a godsend.

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        Even just having Sponsorblock built-in changed my life!!

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      Unfortunately it doesn’t work without a login. Also the search function stopped working entirely for me recently.

    • paw
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      Can it be used on a “normal” android phone or just android tv?

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      I love this app and would use it even if it didn’t block ads. The user experience is just so much better than the regular YouTube TV app. I’ve sent a few donations to the developer to thank them for their work.

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    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.

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    FT-Sync (in beta) has just been released.
    Also on the dev’s website (in French)

    I think Linux only, and between desktop clients, no mention of Android.

    Also manual install, but it’s not too hard.

  • @powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de
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    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

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    Am I the only one that hates third-party clients for Desktop? They all have terrible UI and UX. Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go. For the phone it’s NewPipe or Grayjay.

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      Don’t forget about Enhancer for YouTube, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow! They’re all a must-have for desktop YT.

    • @xthexder@l.sw0.com
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      Personally I still use the Firefox + uBlock + SponsorBlock + YouTube combo on my phone too. Maybe if I watched more YouTube on my phone it’d be worth figuring out an app with a better mobile UI, but I like that it’s a consistent experience anywhere I watch from.

    • @leadore@lemmy.world
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      Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go.

      Unless you don’t like Google tracking everything you watch on youtube, that is.

      • @person420@lemmynsfw.com
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        Let’s be real, no matter how you’re watching YouTube, if you’re accessing the video directly and not cached through a third party server, Google is still tracking you.

    • @Kanda@reddthat.com
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      I use Firefox with ublock on desktop, works like a charm. My favourite on android is YouTube revanced

    • @fross@lemmy.world
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      Revanced app had the superior UI/UX.

      Not because if taste, but because it is the YouTube UI that then allows you to add and remove stuff from the UI, getting away from all the user-hostile stuff. If you want to.

      • @dan@upvote.au
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        ReVanced isn’t a third-party client though. It’s patches applied to the official client.

    • @daq@lemmy.sdf.org
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      I use the same combo on my phone without any issues or ads. Why use a client on the phone?

    • @EngineerGaming@feddit.nl
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      I used to think it is redundant too, but now see it as a quality-of-life difference. Because I can track my subscriptions and watch history, as well as have playlists. That is a massive improvement over folders of bookmarks.

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      LOL the only terrible UI is the YouTube one. I dunno how people deal with all the garbage content and vertical videos that are relentlessly crammed down your throat. Not to mention the completely fucked search function.

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    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.

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        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.

        • @dan@upvote.au
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          Or host your own :) less likely to be blocked by Google if it’s just you using it.

    • @wulf@lemmy.world
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      Invidious is awesome, if possible, self hosting one in docker is great and keeps it up to date

    • @kinship@lemmy.sdf.org
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      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.

      • @Nima@leminal.space
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        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.

  • @ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    The recommendation algorithm is the reason I use YouTube. Well over half of the videos I’m watching are from channels I’m not even subscribed to. Ads can be blocked as always.

    • @dan@upvote.au
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      The recommendation algorithm is the reason I use YouTube.

      This is an unpopular opinion on Lemmy (since it means Google has to track you) but I agree. I’ve discovered so many great channels, both small and large, through YouTube recommendations.

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    Oh shit, I just made the switch and I’m liking it. I just “favourite” things from my sub feed in one small window, and watch in the other, and it autoplays (if I want) so I can just start doing shit while the background vids keep playing. Honestly kinda more convienient than youtubes gui. It has sponsorblock built in too, which is nice

    • @1984@lemmy.todayOP
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      Since they are integrating a web browser in the app, it kind of make sense here actually. For code editors though, not great…

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        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.

      • @dan@upvote.au
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        Since they are integrating a web browser in the app,

        You can do this in a better way by using something like Photino or Tauri that uses the OS’ native browser engine. There’s no need to bundle a browser with every app (like Electron does).

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      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.

      • @nforminvasion@lemmy.world
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        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 can’t say I’m familiar with that particular event. But I’m guessing there is a difference there in that iMessage is well, a messaging service. YouTube isn’t, their videos are on public webpages.

          All Freetube and company needs to do, if it comes to it, is find a way extract a video from a public webpage. There’s a million ways to do that.

          iMessage is not a public webpage, and so there is no real way around it unless you go through their api.