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YouTube warns it might make your viewing experience worse if you don't turn off your ad-blocker
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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Loving Freetube, Newpipe, and Grayjay more and more every day!
in the short term they work, but YouTube can cut those 3rd party apps access at any time for any reason. Use Peertube for the better long term.
I thought All three of the ones I listed weren't reliant on YT APIs and instead scraped their content.
Edit: Just confirmed both NewPipe and Freetube do not use YouTube's api. I'm not sure about GrayJay though.
Even the scrapping in theory could be restricted. I might be wrong there.
Possible maybe, but at that point if YT bascially becomes paywalled I will just stop using it entirely like I did with Reddit.
Tried to dive into Piped recently, but nothing would load.
I'm only surface-level competent with computers though, so I probably fucked something up... since you've poked around multiple options, which one(s) do you recommend as the most idiot proof?
For android, the stock newpipe from the fdroid repositories was just download and play for me. Easy and simple interface.
For Grayjay, I use the direct download .apk from their website. It's been a little more buggy because it's still new, but all in all quite stable. Less features right now, but does all the basics and has device casting to TV which Newpipe doesn't.
For my PC, Freetube. I just use the Flatpak version for Linux. I'm on Nobara for my distro currently and it's worked fine.
I gave up using Piped. It was really good when it worked but sadly most of the time it was frustrating. Takes ages to get a video going then breaks up multiple times.
From my experience, it depends on the instance. Sometimes, one instance of Piped will not work, but another will be OKish.