Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.
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On mobile, Firefox plus ublock works well. There are a few issues like losing your position if the page reloads, but it works pretty consistently otherwise.
I also use NewPipe, but Google breaks it fairly regularly.
Grayjay.app
But it requires login when I tried to play some videos on youtube
Check the settings. There should be some to allow restricted videos
I pay a subscription to nebula and most of the creators i want are on there.
Hell, I'm having issues using the plain old YouTube website. It tries to make me sign in.
I think thats the point of this question. How to get around that because YT has become unusable.
Downside is that you'll have to regularly delete all the videos you've downloaded.
Tubular on on mobile and trying to find a Non Electron app for pc
Grayjay
What's the benefit of Grayjay over NewPipe, except for the fact that Grayjay supports other video platforms too?
Grayjay is just plugins for everything, so if you want to add a new platform you can make it
NewPipe is only on Android, no?
There's a flatpak too, but it's not good.
Freetube and newpipe for me. However I will say they just don't work sometimes. So then I just am left with my browser.
I wish we had some sort of way to copy videos from YT to PeerTube on some sort of on-demand way.
Like tell PeerTube the video you want, wait a few minutes, and then its available for everyone. Then it auto deletes after X days if it has had 0 views.
Edit: oh man, you could even have a Lemmy bot do this automatically when it sees a link to a YouTube video.
Searching Videos on FreeTube but watching these in the SMplayer, because FreeTube lists theVideos, but often don't play it. SMplayer works almost always, Also possible open the Video copying the URL in it. Another possibility is searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search results sandboxed and anonym with the random proxies which use Andisearch.
I discovered that I watch enough YouTube to warrant paying for a premium subscription. I've turned off viewing history (after one video, so the homepage renders).
This isn't a solution for everyone, but it works for me.
I use a bot on mastodon named [email protected] . It sends me a link of new videos from creators I follow.I directly open the link with Tubular (newpipe fork) or freetube and download it to watch later.
I found that switching my VPN server allowed FreeTube to work for me. I'm on Mullvad's South African servers atm, which are quite slow. If anyone knows of any unblocked Mullvad servers that are faster, lmk, but those were the first ones I found that you can use FreeTube with.
Most Netherlands servers work for me
Which netherlands servers are working for you? I just tried literally all the wireguard ones and none of them worked.
Newpipe still up as of this morning. Hope it stays that way.
Vpn
I personally use libretube (with piped proxy disabled in settings) with proton vpn. If it shows the "sign in to confrim your not a bot" mesaage I just swap vpn servers.