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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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.
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Invidious is awesome, if possible, self hosting one in docker is great and keeps it up to date
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SmartTube beta on Android TV is fanfuckingtastic.
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.
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
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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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.
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.
Don't forget about Enhancer for YouTube, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow! They're all a must-have for desktop YT.
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Keep it quiet with the Freetube articles, I don't want it gone lol.
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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.
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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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I prefer NewPipe/Tubular so much that I don't even use my desktop for YouTube anymore.
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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.
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.
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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
For some reason like recommendation algorithm, I still use youtube premium.
How is that different from the free version in a browser with Ublock Origin?
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I agree; between it and Tubular, YouTube is usable again.
That said, someone pointed out that higher resolutions are not viewable on FreeTube. I hadn't noticed this until they mentioned it, and now I notice it constantly. I don't know why, but it's demonstratable: find a 4k video on Tubular, and open the same video on FreeTube, and only lower resolution versions are available.
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 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.
I enjoy the Android app. Wish the ui was a bit better tho, hard to navigate sometimes
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I tried it there but my browser works better is my first impression, I'm using thorium with Ublock, YouTube enhanced and some other addons.
Did honestly just give this a test but I kept getting videos just freezing up for no reason.
YouTube recently rolled out changes that break these third party apps causing a 503 error. Other apps have patched this issue.
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Why does it want me to scan my ID? Wtf?
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