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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Seeing how I invested in an 144Hz monitor instead of a Hi-Res one, I see no issues here!
Will check it out!
SmartTube is pretty great for android TV.
It's annoying though that you can't save videos to lists or subscribe to channels without logging in to youtube account.
Yaaa.
And I use Enhancer for YouTube™ on desktop Firefox on my Bazzite PC.
And Tubular on my Android phone.