Moving away from Google. I just added my fav subs into my rss feed but that isn’t an enough to get good recs. What else can one do? Alternative front ends that work?
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grayjay, it’s an app developed by Louis Rossman to combine a lot of streaming platforms into one privacy and security respecting app. it does have billionaire backing tho if that yanks your chain
+1 on Grayjay. Also Tubular. FreeTube on PC and SmartTube on TV.
Thanks! I’ll check it out. Thanks for yanking my chain
ofc!
A nice docker friendly front end to yt-dlp. I use it to watch YouTube on iOS devices where ublock origin is not an option.
Freetube on desktop works beautifully. They just added playlists too
This is awesome!
on the minus side, it’s electron and it doesn’t have tabs, but it’s a rather minor inconvenience for me
Do your subscriptions load well? I just imported mine from freshrss and they’re loading slowly
A couple seconds does it… I have 56 subscribed channels though, that’s not a lot, perhaps loading times scale with this number
Hmm maybe I’ll reinstall. Never loading for me. I can click individual but not all subs
You can check the tracker for open issues, see if you’re encountering a known one
I use a self-hosted invidious instance, and despite the recent issues with Google trying to block them mine works behind Mullvad VPN.
I use the web app on desktop, and Yattee client on my phone/ipad
On Android try NewPipe, but dont expect algorithm recommendations, just the main trending pages. Same for iOS use “unwatched”
I sub to channels and use Youtubes recommendations and new for you to find additional channels etc but I don’t watch them I use Metube and a browser plugin and download the videos to a directory. I don’t get all the privacy but I also am not giving them much watch data and I can avoid the ads.
I just watch it on youtube.com without logging in. Sacrificing convenience and using some frontend that only work if you pray hard is not something I want to do daily-drive
There are some periods where YouTube make changes frequently so that e.g. FreeTube stops working for some time, but for the most part it works reliably well. I would say it provides a much better convenience than watching on youtube.com logged out, as you have profiles, subscriptions, playlist and history. Including adblock, sponsorblock and dearrow, and granular control over what to show or not (comments, shorts, live etc.).
youtube-local over a Mullvad (other services like Proton or IVPN are great as well) works really well for me
NewPipe or PipePipe.
Been using PipePipe for awhile now and love it. Unfortunately, recently it has not been able to load playlists 9/10 times. Very frustrating. Hopefully it gets a patch soon.
Any problems I’ve had with these apps has usually been solved by reconnecting my VPN.
I don’t have a VPN.
Self-hosted Invidious or public Invidious instances.
Libretube with a vpn! Newpipe doesn’t look great imo
I use several of the suggestions above, but also for IOS (iPhone) I use “Firefox Focus” and it clears everything when I close it and I can watch ad free.
NewPipe
