FreeTube - The Private YouTube Client
freetubeapp.io
FreeTube is a feature-rich and user-friendly YouTube client with a focus on privacy.

A massive thanks to @LuanRT for providing the fix regarding to the extraction of the deciphering functions. Also, big thanks to @PikachuEXE for coming up with a potential alternative solution!

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases

  • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 个月前

    I’m not understanding why it doesn’t work when I turn on my VPN, though. Is there a way to watch Youtube and have the VPN on?

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 个月前

        Do you know of a working exit country/location? I’ve tried a few different locations with no dice, but if I know there is one that works for someone else, I’ll certainly try that.

    • perishthethought@lemm.eeOPEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Yes, that should work, I believe, though I am no expert. I watch YT via Freetube with my VPN on most of the time, and right now too. I use Mozilla VPN if that matters and have it connected to just some other US city, but as always, YMMV.

      • CharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 个月前

        I’m using Private Internet Access. It’s weird, because as soon as I turn it on, FreeTube fails to play anything.

  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    10·
    2 个月前

    I was having issues with it the other day, and so I pasted the URL into my browser and it would not let me watch past 1 min of any video without disabling ublock.

    Needless to say, I didn’t watch the video. I’m done with using YouTube in any official way. If they successfully remove all options for avoiding ads on their site, then I will just never go there again.

    • swelter_spark@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      2 个月前

      Same. I’ve been tentatively exploring podcasts, since most of what I used YouTube for was listening to videos to get to sleep at night. It would be exciting if Peertube use picked up because of this, though.

  • 6R1M R34P3R@lemmy.mlEnglish
    21·
    2 个月前

    Yay! I realized yesterday too. They are real heroe. Also, if the project dies at somepoint (likely due to YT hunting them and making their site even worse, I guess it’s time to stop relying in their crap and use real alternatives like Odysee and Peertube

  • ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    3·
    2 个月前

    It’s still not working for me unfortunately, I’m using the latest release and I get “unplayable, video unavailable” error on everything.

  • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
    16·
    2 个月前

    Unfortunately the only invidious instance I’ve been able to rely on doesn’t enable the API endpoints. The admin is a real trooper though. I’m not sure if it’s the flagship.

      • degen@midwest.socialEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        I think I either tried that or didn’t want to bother lol. I guess it felt slightly less janky to click on another backend on nadeko. Gonna update freetube for sure though. I probably shouldn’t care to proxy videos that much.

      • leadore@lemmy.world
        9·
        2 个月前

        The external player thing has never worked for me, at least when I set it to VLC, which just displays an error. I must be missing something.

        Edit: thanks for the replies, next time I’ll try mpv and/or haruna

        • anon5621@lemmy.ml
          2·
          2 个月前

          No u don’t miss anything lua plugin in vlc not updated already for long time so I am using yt-dlp workround and modified lua plugin

        • whatsgoingdom@rollenspiel.forum
          2·
          2 个月前

          I used haruna and it works. The instructions on the FreeTube GitHub could be clearer though. Depending on if you’re using FreeTube and or the external player as flatpak there are different ways to get it working.

          • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            1·
            2 个月前

            I wish MPC had a linux version. One of the few pieces of Windows-only software (along with foobar2000) that I actually miss.

            A few months back I decided to fuck around and see if I could get it working in wine, and it seemed to work OK, but pretty jank. Too jank to consider seriously using.

  • Noddyo@lemmygrad.mlBannedEnglish
    2·
    30 天前

    I love this program. It makes Youtube so much better. No Google account. No ads and tracking. Easy and solid blocking of the hundreds of rubbish channels. New version just out FYI.

    • HelloRoot@lemy.lolEnglish
      18·
      2 个月前

      Every time freetube is broken, I have to use grayjay interim, which pushes a fix almost immediately, while freetube takes a couple of days.