If you want a good front end alternative to youtube, try freetube on pcs and newpipe on android
Also there is https://piped.video/trending for watching in browser and Revanced on Android
And for anyone using YouTube Music there is Desktop app for Linux,MacOS and Windows https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
There is libretube for using piped as an app on Android
Yes, but for me sometimes video doesn't load so I prefer NewPipe/Tubular
If you use the default piped instance then it's usually overloaded. You can either try finding an alternative or just host your own, personally I do the ladder I rented a VPS for 20 bucks a month and I host my own pipe there
Ok, thank you for advice
Revanced is fucky nowadays. I haven't been able to fix the issue where videos randomly stop buffering until you reopen them.
Did you update patches and which YouTube version apk you patched?
Suggested YT apk is V.19.16.39
I am using 19.11.43 and for me it works great
SmartTube on Android TVs!
To add on to this for iOS/macOS/iPadOS if you use safari you can send YouTube to your TV through airplay. Skips all the ads and if you use sponsorblock skips that too, so if you are too lazy to install smart tube this is a setup that works nicely.
FreeTube is on Android too.
...no it's not?
Edit: yes it is
Yes it is: https://github.com/MarmadileManteater/FreeTubeAndroid
Works well, and you can sync history, playlists etc with SyncThing.
Damn bro, I'm going to have to start using it then
is, but it's just a webview
https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/io.freetubeapp.freetube
What do you mean by "just a webview"? As far as I know, FreeTube does not exist as a web client that can then just be displayed in an in-app browser.
as far as I see freetube is just written in html, css and Javascript, then all of that thrown into an Electron app. you can run these elements without Electron in any browser, it just won't have access to as many device features as the app does.
I've built a web version here from the source just to try it out. it's somewhat buggy but it does work
Ah, thanks for the info - I wasn't aware of that.
Big tech can cheat the system by paying their taxes on countries in which they are lower, but when you try to do the same:
imagine paying for youtube
Use NewPipe on Android, problem solved.
Or LibreTube. They even have a Lemmy community: [email protected]
Didn't knew about the communnity. Suscribed.
Imagine paying for youtube 😂 Giving the big bully more money.
I pay for YouTube because it does give more revenue than watching an ad to the creators. I pay 6$ and watch hundreds of hours monthly. If it was more than that I will consider alternatives and AdBlock (what I was doing before started my sub). To each their own :)
They don't have patreon?
I don’t want to set up Patreon for every creator I’m watching. Often I just watch one or two videos from them and that’s it.
Some do, others don't and as someone else said i am not going to make Patreon and do monthly sub to each of them. As I said I watch hundreds of hours per month and it's not from 4-5 creators. For me it's worth - I pay for the infrastructure and some support for the people I watch. If it's free for you it means someone else is paying.
It’s the equivalent of $16.50 a month where I live and that is not an insignificant proportion of my monthly income. The adverts are constantly repeating and often for products and services that are actual scams. I firmly believe as soon as enough people pay… we’ll have to pay more or they will show us a smaller number of “specially selected” ads.
The more you pay, the more advertisers recognize you as a lucrative crowd and wanna get in your face.
It's still Google, which is basically just another EvilCorp Inc. Probably donating more directly to the creator would give them more money than going through Google.
do you think the signature you include in your posts have a tangible effect?
Do you disagree with this comment? https://alexandrite.app/lemmy.world/comment/9806517
I think it's hilariously naïve. The comments will be scraped anyway, and there's nothing you can do about it
It was enough to convince a few others to do the same, however pointless it is. They've been told before, but don't care either way and will keep doing it.
Of course I agree with the comment. I take all my ~~copyright~~ advice from random comments on the internet. Especially the ones that use expletives. Those are the best comments to take advice from.
If the France sports dns blocking has proved anything it’s that most people just don’t bother. And if it doesn’t work just accept it instead of just changing a DNS setting in a computer.
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thats literally fraud. Consider yourself lucky they're not some other online marketplaces.
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