Louis Rossman just released Grayjay! His video about it is here
Only on android :/ i thought it was going to be a progressive web app
I almost switched to iPhone, thankfully this came out to show me why that is a bad idea. I just need to de-gpogle.
Wait, why would this one app currently only being available on Android make switching a bad idea? Seems like a weird thing to base a decision that big on…
This one app to use a google service stopped you from moving away from a google operating system? Lol
you can degoogle android. good luck removing apple from your iPhone tho
I am going to use a privacy focussed android instead.
Graphene on Pixel time?
Yow! that looks pretty awesome. I installed it and added the Nebula plugin... wonder if there's a CuriosityStream one as well?
GrayJay just came out into the testing phase. It not only supportsYouTubee but also Nebula, Odysee, Twitch, PeerTube and a few others with more to come. Works great so far. grayjay.app. Built by Futo, a nonprofit company which Louis Rossmann works for. His video here
GrayJay just launched and it's fucking fantastic.
It combines YouTube and Twitch into one platform in a really intuitive way. Has its own comment system and rating system for videos. No ads obviously. It's a whole fucking thing and it's incredible.
and it's not free software. only source available with a license that doesn't allow forking.
And they do it so they can take down malicious copycats on Google Play
Which they could already do, with basic trademark law and just forcing all derivatives to be non-commercial. Cyrptominers are commercial.
Forcing all derivatives work to be non-commercial is incompatible with being open source.
Though I agree that they can already prevent usage of their app name with trademark laws.
You'll find a lot of answers in this thread: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/6385210
(I used Piped (https://piped.video) with LibreTube (https://libretube.dev/))
SmartTube is excellent on our NVidia Shield. Not sure what other platforms it works on.
Seconding SmartTube on android TV. No ads, can automatically skip all sorts of content in videos (spoken ads, self-promotion, introduction segments, etc. etc. etc.) I dread the day it stops working.
Best overall SmartTube for Android TV and NewPipe with SponsorBlock for Android.
I came across this website thanks to someone sharing it here, so I thought I’d do the same: https://fmhy.pages.dev/storage/#youtube-frontends
Invidious
Freetube, Individious, Piped, CloudTube, PokeTube, Tubo, Yattee are the main ones I know of. If you want be automatically redirected to alternative youtube frontends installed Lib Redirect.
I've been enjoying Piped for awhile now; it actually shows me a feed that's exclusively my subscriptions and has SponsorBlock built in.
YouTube revanced works super well.
NewPipe SponsorBlock
How about alternatives to Youtube?
Most alternatives are pretty great, but they can never have the amount of content and the reach that youtube has. Youtube has a monopoly and they know it. They can do whatever they want, because you can't leave.
Yes, I love odysee and bit chute for exemple, people just need to go there instead just like the migration from Reddit to Lemmy so it can grow bigger.
I can only recommend piped sadly, Invidious still make you connect to Google servers and do not proxy the video for you.
Can someone explain to me why I want the video proxied vs the video coming directly from YT via a front end? I've used YouTube Vanced in the past and it was awesome when it worked
Get revanced, it works now.
Its for privacy. This way youtube doesnt get your ip and has more difficulty figuring out who you are
I'm self-hosting Piped and couldn't be happier. Clean, distraction free and, importantly, private. No data mining. Importing your subscriptions from a Google Takeout dump is simple.
LibreTube for Android is my mobile client, and talks to my Piped server without any issues. The only thing missing at this stage is a client for my Chromecast GTVs. For those, I still watch YouTube with SmartTubeNext, which means keeping two sets of subscriptions in sync. A little frustrating, but relatively painless, for the privacy benefits.
Been using revanced for a while - had no idea there were this many alternatives. I like revanced though, especially with stube on Google tv.
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