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Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube

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: 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.

jared ,
@jared@mander.xyz avatar

SmartTube is pretty great for android TV.

Eeyore_Syndrome ,
@Eeyore_Syndrome@sh.itjust.works avatar

Yaaa.

And I use Enhancer for YouTube™ on desktop Firefox on my Bazzite PC.

And Tubular on my Android phone.

Nougat ,

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
lord_ryvan ,

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

Will check it out!

TwilightKiddy ,

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

corvus ,
@corvus@lemmy.ml avatar

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.

atro_city ,

You can donate to them, can't you?

Flatworm7591 OP ,

Thanks for the reminder: Donate link

boredsquirrel ,
@boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net avatar

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.

It also allows commenting, livechat, and has its own rating system.

Also, it has Sponsorblock integration.

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