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Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube (www.popsci.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'm not sure it's the "best" way, but it's a solid alternative, and receives rapid updates when YouTube moves to break things.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/15571129

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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (7 children)

... on computer.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Isn't this exactly like the original YouTube?

They get users to provide free content with the impression it is a genuine grassrots community then when the site becomes popular enough they cash in. imdb was like this too.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Grayjay and Freetube are both fine but different.

For some reason, Freetube currently works well, Grayjay needs iOS fallback and barely works.

Grayjay follows the bigger, already implemented idea of combining multiple platforms. This is a great UX and smooth fallback when Youtube blocks again, or permanently.

Accounts can link multiple platforms, so switching is easier.

It also allows commenting, livechat, on the platforms and has on the polycentric protocol, connecting all others.

Also, it has Sponsorblock integration.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You can donate to them, can't you?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

Thanks for the reminder: Donate link

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Other benefits:

Multiple subscription profiles, so you can organize your subscribed channels into groups. "I want to watch stuff about cars and motorcycles - I choose 'Motoring.'"
SponsorBlock
No stupid recommendations to drag you into despair, hate watching, and misinformation.
Ability to never show shorts.

Downside:

Max 1080

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

There is also an Android fork which works amazingly well.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You can add mpv to FreeTube as an external player. With yt-dlp, it supports playing YouTube videos directly and in any quality. It also has a plugin for SponsorBlock integration.

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

Yeah, I use MPV as a external player and it's great because you can highly customize the way you watch videos. I like equalize the sound and through a MPV script I save the video from cache with a keystroke if I liked it. Sadly watching with subtitles stopped working some weeks ago.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Seeing how I invested in an 144Hz monitor instead of a Hi-Res one, I see no issues here!

Will check it out!

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 2 months ago (2 children)

SmartTube is pretty great for android TV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's annoying though that you can't save videos to lists or subscribe to channels without logging in to youtube account.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)