Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube

FT-Sync (in beta) has just been released.
Also on the dev's website (in French)

I think Linux only, and between desktop clients, no mention of Android.

Also manual install, but it's not too hard.

• Windows: FreeTube
• Android: NewPipe
• Roku: Playlet

The trifecta!

All they need now is an iOS/iPadOS app.

Keep it quiet with the Freetube articles, I don't want it gone lol.

Can I see dislikes tho?

Am I the only one that hates third-party clients for Desktop? They all have terrible UI and UX. Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go. For the phone it's NewPipe or Grayjay.

i constantly gotta swap invidious instances because youtube is being relentless in their war against invidious.

but the ui is awesome and I use it every day.

The best part about FreeTube unlike other Third-Party clients is that it retains a better YouTube-like suggestions system for any videos you wanna watch next. Discoverability is still a very important thing for me

Yt in browser (ff+UBO) plays less than a minute, then stops. Freetube works. I hate google.

SmartTube beta on Android TV is fanfuckingtastic.

My lg tv is jailbroken so I have the ad blocked version of YouTube on it, but I was on my Chromecast with Google tv yesterday and decided to go back to the regular YouTube app since I was there.

I was watching a video of 20 minutes in length, and got one 30 second ad at the start; ok fine.

After 4 minutes, they decided to show me a 50 second unskippable ad.

I backed out of the video, and deleted the regular app.

Fuck Google.

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

Oh shit, I just made the switch and I'm liking it. I just "favourite" things from my sub feed in one small window, and watch in the other, and it autoplays (if I want) so I can just start doing shit while the background vids keep playing. Honestly kinda more convienient than youtubes gui. It has sponsorblock built in too, which is nice

Why does it want me to scan my ID? Wtf?

Using it for years yes

The recommendation algorithm is the reason I use YouTube. Well over half of the videos I'm watching are from channels I'm not even subscribed to. Ads can be blocked as always.

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.

I enjoy the Android app. Wish the ui was a bit better tho, hard to navigate sometimes

I agree; between it and Tubular, YouTube is usable again.

That said, someone pointed out that higher resolutions are not viewable on FreeTube. I hadn't noticed this until they mentioned it, and now I notice it constantly. I don't know why, but it's demonstratable: find a 4k video on Tubular, and open the same video on FreeTube, and only lower resolution versions are available.

I wish it didn't use Electron.

For some reason like recommendation algorithm, I still use youtube premium.

yeah I agree! My wife would hear bitchin me if we would watch something on her iphone as i would constantly point out the fucking ads.. I use in on my Fedora but sometimes (like once a month) I have a problem with the invidous instances. I wish there would be something similar to use on android, bu fortunately with Firefox& SponsorBlock it seems to block most of them...

I tried it there but my browser works better is my first impression, I'm using thorium with Ublock, YouTube enhanced and some other addons.

Did honestly just give this a test but I kept getting videos just freezing up for no reason.

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.

I just wish it supported tabs, I'd switch immediately if it did

I am copying every single url from browser and paste it to Celluloid. That's how I watch youtube on PC.

ytfzf better (if you dont mind not reading comments lmao)

I've been using it since YouTube stopped allowing adblockers.

No Android version of it yet, eh? Damn.

ETA: I previously tried Vanced, but it didn't work correctly.

I'd argue that Brave is the best way. The adblock is seamless and requires no add-ons, and you retain the full functionality of the site.

No ios not cool

Does it get rid of the ads?

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also,

a community I created here on Lemmy.World:

music, but no YouTube no Spotify no Facebook no fru fru

https://lemmy.world/c/musicnoytnosnofbnoff

youtube is cancer