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What’s the newest way of watching YouTube? (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead. Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l'd still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped). Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I'm aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I'm more interested in just "subscribing", kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS

Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to [email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I just use yt-dlp and VLC ¯\(ツ)/¯

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

Orion browser works fine for me on iOS

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

i "subscribe" via rss in freshrss, just use the normal youtube.com on desktop and mobile browser. StoptheMadness on iOS to strip ads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Unwatched is great on ios.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Whoa, this is it! This is what I’m looking for

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

This is awesome, thank you!

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

it's so pointless

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

? its pointless to watch videos without it being tracked to an account and with adds removed?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

https://github.com/alexta69/metube and Plex

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

piped.video still works for me: subscriptions, categories, comments. Watching is MPV

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

On my phone I still use LibreTube but with the option to load the video directly from YouTube (essentially doing what NewPipe is doing) and on PC I just use YouTube's directly. I still use Piped to keep my subscriptions synchronized tho.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.

I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606

Edit: One of the benefits of using selfhosted RSS with a web interface is that it is platform agnostic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

@lent9004 @asbestos Holy crap, that looks like an awesome way to use Fresh. Thanks for posting it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

No worries! This setup ended up working better than I thought, and I've been using it as my primary way of interfacing with youtube.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

Revanced and Firefox + uBlock Origin.

First one's hard to set up, but I'm sure anybody self-hosting literally anything could do it in two seconds.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

I used NewPipe for a while, now I'm trying out a fork called PipePipe. https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

FreeTube still works for my Linux system, for most videos.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

same

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they're working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.

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