Customize YouTube to work exactly the way you want it to.

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.

      • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Using uYou via AltStore and it’s such a better experience. I’d rather stop using YouTube altogether than pay Alphabet to use YouTube without ads. I’m not enabling user hostile behavior to push people into Premium. Screw that.

    • Sneezycat@sopuli.xyzEnglish
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      17 days ago

      More like using iOS is not cool. At least in the EU they get some more things, but I was trying the other day to show a workmate how to install an ad blocker and it turns out you can’t even install firefox extensions on iOS!

    • c10l@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      On iOS I’ve been using Vinegar - Tube Cleaner by developer And a Dinosaur. It doesn’t replace YouTube as a whole - only the video player. Better interface, no ads.

  • SmileyBMM@feddit.nlEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I prefer NewPipe/Tubular so much that I don’t even use my desktop for YouTube anymore.

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      As someone who’s survived ACTUAL cancer, and spent a year of my life dealing with this shit, and dealing with the aftermath of it now, having to get a colonoscopy this friday as part of my checkups, you can fuck right off with your casual usage of that word.

      Lets slice open your chest, put a medical port in a surgury where you’re still awake, and still somewhat feel whats happening because thats how they do it with todays medical insurance. Thats what we get in America. Lets have you on chemotherapy for a year so you’re so out of it and so physically weak that you can’t wash your own dishes. You have to ask a friend to pull the suction cup drain so the water in the sink can drain so you’re able to individually lift dish.

      Lets have the government tell you that cancer doesn’t qualify you for disability, so you end up with $0 income for 9 months, and expected to pay rent.

      Lets have bus drivers roll their eyes at you for being 40 years old, and not able to lift groceries that aren’t that heavy. Made to feel like an elderly person, but people treat you like an asshole for wasting their time.

      Lets have you go through that, and tell me again how youtube is cancer.

      • parpol@programming.devEnglish
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        17 days ago

        “X is cancer”, “X spreads like cancer”, “X is cancerous” are so incredibly common phrases. Are they generally considered inappropriate?

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          “Spreads like cancer” not so much to me. “Is cancerous” I would say to avoid saying, unless it legitimately IS a risk for cancer.

          I was told that being in a brick building, is not a threat for cancer. However, living in a brick home after say 40 years, actually CAN be a risk for cancer. Which not a lot of people would know. So I think keeping “is cancerous” to an actual legitimate basis is a good idea to spread actual good information. Because if I said “brick houses are cancerous”, that sounds like an exaggeration, but in the long run it’s true.

          “Is cancer” really just depends on how casually its being used. Something that causes you a mild inconvienence? Yeah, I’d find that offensive. But using it towards something that may not be literal cancer, but still poses a physical harm, I find less offensive. Like saying “Nestle is a cancer on this planet”. I wouldn’t find that offensive, because Nestle uses literal slavery, while draining the planet of natural resources, and giving the middle finger to everyone else. Yeah, THAT can be called a cancer. But youtube? Put on an adblock, move on with your day.

      • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 days ago

        I’m sorry to read you were treated so poorly during your treatment. I hope you are in a better situation, if not now then in the near future.

        • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Well, I brought up the worst parts because it emphasises the harsh realities yoj go through with that.

          But you’ll notice I didn’t speak ill of the actual treatment plan. The people I would see every 2 weeks. I’d be brought into this room, and hooked up to this machine, and the thing would take 6 hours every time. But the nurses were nice. They took care of anything they could. The one time my body rejected the chemo, the head nurse fixed things before I knew what was happening. My skin had turned lobster red, and was in the process of poisoning itself to shut down the foreign chemo drugs. This being after 3 months of treatment. I just felt my skin a little warm, and I felt dizzy. But unrelated to the cancer, I grew up being told never to ask for help. Always tough it out. Which is TERRIBLE advice. If there are any new dads out there, don’t teach your kids they shouldn’t get help when they need it.

          So I’m sitting in the chair, knowing I’m burning, knowing I feel dizzy, and not sure if that’s bad enough to warrant asking for help. I’m looking at the floor, thinking “It’ll pass…just let it pass”.

          And the head nurse sees me, rushes over, and starts adjusting the chemo pump. She says (not asks, says), “You’re feeling hot right now, and you shouldn’t stand. You’re dizzy, and you have no leg strength. You will fall on your face if you try. You’re having a chemical reaction, and this dosage has become too strong. We’ll lower the dosage.”

          All of this, without me trying to bring attention to myself. I didn’t want to worry her, when so many others in that room are elderly. I figured I’ll be fine.

          What I didn’t know is that if left untreated like that, your body will eventually go into shock. From there you could pass out. You could have a heart issue. You could have a seizure. It all depends on how your body tries to react. And she told me, in no uncertain terms, that if I ever feel somethkng is odd, to ALWAYS speak up. They’d rather have 100 false alarms than 1 ignored real issue. Which was total culture shock for me. I’m used to being ignored.

          And my family were there for me too. Financially especially. I had no income. So they paid my rent. For a year. I tried to pay my sister back for a portion of what she paid in rent, and she wouldn’t take it.

          So, yeah, my message highlighted the worst parts of the experience. But I had some people looking out for me too.

          • JadenSmith@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            17 days ago

            You’ve been through a fair bit! Sounds like you have built a strong perspective. Your family sounds rather loving.

      • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Damn. That’s brutal.

        I’ve used that phrase myself in the past, and never thought of this, despite having done hospice care. Thanks for the perspective. That’s serious, you made me rethink things.

    • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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      15 days ago

      I love this app and would use it even if it didn’t block ads. The user experience is just so much better than the regular YouTube TV app. I’ve sent a few donations to the developer to thank them for their work.

    • jetliswar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Ive been using it for years now and holy shit. Even if it doesnt blocked ads and even youtubers own ads, the app itself is FAR superior than anything what this vanilla youtube app is supposed to be.

      • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Even if it doesnt blocked ads and even youtubers own ads

        You mean even if it didn’t? Because it definitely DOES and you’re absolutely right about the rest

        • jetliswar@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          17 days ago

          Yes thats what i mean. Even if it didnt then still the app is SUPERIOR IN EVERY WAY than vanilla youtube. But it does block everything. Its a godsend.

    • paw@feddit.orgEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Can it be used on a “normal” android phone or just android tv?

  • zkfcfbzr@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    17 days ago

    I would like Freetube 100x more if it had a web UI instead of a non-browser interface. A web UI with a companion extension to automatically redirect YT video links to it could be so seamless.

    If it’s hosting a server on the local network that would also provide a perfect solution to not having any way for view history or settings to automatically sync between different devices.

    • 1984@lemmy.todayOPEnglish
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      17 days ago

      Since they are integrating a web browser in the app, it kind of make sense here actually. For code editors though, not great…

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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        15 days ago

        Since they are integrating a web browser in the app,

        You can do this in a better way by using something like Photino or Tauri that uses the OS’ native browser engine. There’s no need to bundle a browser with every app (like Electron does).

      • noodlejetski@lemm.eeEnglish
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        17 days ago

        Since they are integrating a web browser in the app

        are they, though? I thought they just grab whatever data Invidious API fetches and display it with their method of choice, similar to how mobile clients for Invidious and Piped work. PlasmaTube manages to do similar thing without becoming a single purpose web browser.

  • LarmyOfLone@lemm.eeEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Have been using it a while since the browser fiasco. It’s awesome but the workflow has a few niggles:

    I’d love a theater mode that uses the full width of the window but still allow the title and comments below. No sidebar or scrollbar besides the video, more like MPV.

    Also LibRedirect isn’t perfect with embedded videos. I’d just like to have a link I can click so it opens in FreeTube.

    And links from the browser are always opened in the first active window instead of opening a new window.

    • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
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      15 days ago

      I use ff+uBO, and all works, never saw an ad. I am also using a VPN that blocks/filter ads, that might help.

    • Olgratin_Magmatoe@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      15 days ago

      Youtube/google/alphabet are almost certainly aware it exists already. The only real risk is too many people switching to it.

      But even then there isn’t much they can do to stop it’s use. They can’t tighten up or remove their api, but then page scraping will take over. They can obfuscation their page, but that will not work forever.

      It’s a cat and mouse game that is impossible to win for them.

      • nforminvasion@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        15 days ago

        You know the same thing was said with Beeper’s imessage on Android pytorch success. “Apple won’t be able to change this. They’d have to change the very nature of imessage itself to block this!” And then, two days later it was blocked completely so, as much as I would hope Google couldn’t block FreeTube, don’t expect such huge successes without tempering expectation.