I watch YouTube when I eat etc. I pretty much solely watch gameplays. Is there any alternative? Or an opensource way to view YouTube? I don’t want to use Twitch because Amazon and I grew out of enjoying streamers in my late teens and it’s been a while since.

Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.

  • JackOfAllTraits@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    NewPipe. Newpipe is feature rich and does not require an account. It holds all subscriptiouns localy and does not use the API. Customizable and had tons of features.

  • frogman [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Since we’re on Lemmy, which uses ActivityPub, I’d first recommend using PeerTube since it’s also a fediverse ActivityPub platform. But it’s pretty small right now.

    Alternatively, Odysee has an established creator base and it’s easy for YouTubers to sync video uploads, so it has a real chance at becoming mainstream if we can push adoption outside of the tech-sphere.

    In terms of just YouTube privacy-respecting frontends, with your browser I recommend using Piped or Invidious.

    For more instances for privacy-respecting front-ends, this link is a good resource. Furthermore, you could consider installing the LibRedirect extension to automatically redirect you to privacy-respecting frontends.

    On Android, I strongly recommend downloading LibreTube or NewPipe from the F-Droid store. LibreTube is actually really pretty, so I prefer it to ReVanced on that basis as it doesn’t require any level of login to manage a subscription list I think. Newpipe is already very well established and I use it personally, very good app.

    Happy to answer any questions, but I’m not an engineer, I’m just a guy :p

    • mrmanager@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 years ago

      Peertube is simply not good however. I encourage people to try it but it’s just not even remotely close to YouTube content.

      For now I think Newpipe is a much, much better choice.

      I think Lemmy is good enough to replace Reddit though, which is why I’m here so much. :)

      • frogman [he/him]@beehaw.orgEnglish
        5·
        2 years ago

        I agree that it’s not fully “there” yet, but it won’t get “there” without users engaging with the videos. I try to use PeerTube for any YouTube creator I enjoy that uploads there. For example, Linux Experiment has started uploading there so I’ll be tuning in weekly to see his news updates.

        Let’s still support upcoming platforms where we can :)

  • QuoteNat@beehaw.orgEnglish
    7·
    2 years ago

    On desktop there’s Freetube, which is an accountless youtube frontend, which I’ve basically been daily driving for over a year now. It’s not the best experience in the world, as it still lacks some features like playlists.

  • Bandicoot_Academic@lemmy.oneEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Newpipe is an open source youtube client, unfortunatly it’s missing any features that require an account.

    If you want those features check out Revanced, a patched youtube app. Unfortunetly since Revanced uses the stock youtube app its not fully open source.

    If you decide to use revanced be careful as there are a lot of fake websites. The real one is revanced.app or the github. You also need to patch the app yourself.

    • pdlrd://@terefere.euEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      I confirm this is the greatest front end out there (excluding YouTube front end)

      I’m Elon Musk

  • pokkst@monero.town
    5·
    2 years ago

    For desktop: Piped or Invidious instances, like piped.kavin.rocks

    If you want to completely get rid of YouTube, then PeerTube or Odysee is nice.

    • caos@feddit.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      You can also download video or audio from some Individious instances. For desktop, Freetube is also recommended as a programme that can also do this and you can also subscribe to channels etc. via it. For others, perhaps interesting: for Android, NewPipe is highly recommended.

  • ppp@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.

    An Invidious instance or mpv (with yt-fzf for example).

    Personally, I use yt-fzf for searching (no thumbnails though) and newsboat (a cli rss reader) for subscribing to YouTube channels then I can load up videos from there to mpv. I just press the “o” key on my keyboard when a new video comes out and it plays on mpv.

  • Deys@lemmy.oneEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    for android, i recommend newpipe and libreture. in my experience, newpipe is more stable but you can give those two a try and see what you prefer.

  • Evkob@lemmy.caEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been alternating between using Invidious and Piped in the past week or so, which are both open-source ways to access Youtube videos.

    Piped seems to be more consistent with fetching captions, so I’m leaning towards that. You can setup an addon like LibRedirect to change any YouTube URLs to whatever instance of Piped or Invidious (and a couple others I haven’t checked out).

    LibreTube is what I’ve been using on Android since Youtube Vanced died.

    • Zebov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Since you seem knowledgeable, I have a marginally related question. Do you know any dockers that can scrape a YouTube playlist automatically and put it in a Plex folder?

      • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        Yt-dlp app can download playlists and whole channels also batch download supported, just set download to folder you need, from text file in which your channels/playlists listed, and add recurring cron job to repeat downloading new videos as they appear

        • Zebov@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 years ago

          Hm, I’ll have to try again with that. I tried a couple, but I think that one would download one or two videos then quit.

          Appreciate the info!

          • bruhduh@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            2 years ago

            I had the same problem, to work properly app need to set proper arguments like “yt-dlp -abcd” and some people had problem with downloading speed, this problem was solved with usage of custom downloader option of yt-dlp, as custom downloader aria2 app was used with options to split downloaded file into 16 chunks downloaded in parallel, also as channels change names of videos you can accidentally download same file multiple times, to avoid that use dedication like fdupes or something, imo you should delve deeper into it and slap some bash script for your personal needs), then recurring cron job to repeat that script when you need it

  • alcyoneous@beehaw.orgEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    If you’re on iOS, there is uYou++. It’s a YouTube client, but you could find the experience better. You can use AltStore or similar to side load it

  • kek_w_lol@lemmy.oneEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    If you want a way to view YouTube with no ads, no trackers and with dislikes, Vanced is the way to go. As far as I know their github is still active.