I’ve heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.
I use songtube on android
Invidious. If you look up invidious instances you can find plenty of them and choose one that’s in your country so it’s nice and fast. Sometimes they take an extra second to load but there are no ads so it’s worth it
Invidious
I’ve been enjoying Piped for awhile now; it actually shows me a feed that’s exclusively my subscriptions and has SponsorBlock built in.
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
Looks like a good option, unfortunately it would not run for me on an Android emulator in Windows. (LDPlayer 5)
If you’re on Windows 10 or 11 just install it natively with WSA. You might have to look up a tutorial. I’ve yet to have a compatibility issue
Whoa, I thought that was only for Win 11. Cool, thanks!
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.
Louis Rossman just released Grayjay! His video about it is here
Yow! that looks pretty awesome. I installed it and added the Nebula plugin… wonder if there’s a CuriosityStream one as well?
Can you tell what payment options they offer? I can’t find info on the website, and my options are rather limited. Thank you!
For Nebula/CuriosityStream? I only remember I bought a combo membership near Christmas the last two years – they usually offer a year-long subscription for like $11 USD around the holidays. Look out for those, I really like CuriosityStream and find it’s worth it.
I meant for the app, but it might be a good idea to pick up Nebula as well, I was thinking about that for a long time. Thanks!
It’s free my dude? Its open-source, the code is on gitlab.
Edit: My apologies, I was incorrect.
Didn’t he say in the video it’s a one time fee? Or does the fee provide additional features, and the basic app is free?
I was wrong, see the post I linked in my edit.
You can use the app for as long as you like until you decide if you want to pay. Looks to me like it’s credit card or cashapp at the moment with crypto and carrier based options coming .
Thank you very much, that was the info I was looking for!!
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.
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?
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…
It’s more about the ability for such apps to exist. Other apps include Tachiyomi (manga reader) and similar apps that are not allowed because of the app stores terms of service.
Hopefully Apple will soon be forced to allow such apps to exist outside of their store. Freedom to install what I want is a main reason I switched back from an iPhone to a Pixel with GrapheneOS.
I dunno, I call bullshit on that because Yattee is on the app store: https://github.com/yattee/yattee
Thanks for the link. I’m surprised it survived Apple’s review process as I thought such apps weren’t allowed. Now I have a private YouTube altednative to recommend.
Tachiyomi relies on installing sources as additional apks because otherwise they’d have to update the app daily. This is not allowed on Play/App Store.
YouTube ReVanced and other patched apps are also great and not obviously not possible on iOS bexlcause of restrictions.
If you plan to get a new phone, get a Google Pixel and install GrapheneOS on it. By default, it doesn’t have any Google spyware services. It also has substantial security improvements compared to normal Android. It’s probably the most private and secure mobile operating system that currently exists.
Friendly reminder that Grayjay is only source-available.
FUTO Temporary License (FTL) violates the following open-source principles:
- Open source licenses must allow free redistribution. FTL allows license suspension and termination at any time, without notice, for any or no reason.
- Open source licenses must allow source code distribution. FTL allows restrictions to access the code at any time, without notice, for any or no reason.
- Open source licenses must allow modifications. FTL allows modifications only for non-commercial use, or maybe not even that. FTL dodges the word modifications here, no clue.
- Open source licenses must explicitly allow distribution of software built from modified source code. FTL forbids distribution of software built from modified source code for commercial use.
- Open source licenses must not discriminate against persons/groups and fields of endeavor. FTL allows license suspension and termination at any time, without notice, for any or no reason.
The FTL enables the following practices:
- Copyright holders can change the license terms.
- Copyright holders can re-license everything.
- Copyright holders can target specific groups and individuals with discriminatory license terms.
- Copyright holders can close source everything.
- Copyright holders can forbid specific groups and individuals from using their work.
My main gripe here is that the video sells a source-available software with severe usage restrictions as open-source. These restrictions may sound reasonable to people outside of the open-source world, especially to people who use similar wording in their own terms of service, but nobody would touch your software with a ten foot pole with a software license like that.
It doesn’t? Louis spends quite a bit of time going over why they aren’t fully open source and how they’ve arrived at that result.
I’m not quite sure what you mean? Louis calls it open-source during the entire “This is open source, but it is NOT free!” segment. But what he describes as open-source is not open-source, but source-available.
The reasoning that he doesn’t want it to be used like newpipe is really optimistic on his part. People break license all the time on much larger applications.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
“This is open source, but it is NOT free!” segment
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
Good bot (and it’s also open source, the actual kind)
I use NewPipe for my phone and it’s been wonderful
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.
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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.
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If you don’t see the option in the settings, you might have to try another instance, it is a feature but instances can disable it for obvious reasons.
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
FreeTube https://freetubeapp.io/
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Would like to add to this that invidious on web can proxy your videos like Piped does but you have to enable it in settings first, not sure when they added it but they have that now
Just want to add to your yatte this source/instance this gives you a lot of instances to start with so you don’t need to add them manually.
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 use freetube on linux, newpipe on android.
Check out LibreTube on Android!
