FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client

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  • FreeTube

    An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

  • yattee

    Privacy oriented video player for iOS, tvOS and macOS

    • Yattee

    https://github.com/yattee/yattee

    https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629

    You can use it both with Piped or Invidious

    https://np.reddit.com/r/Yattee/comments/13d3lj7/how_to_set_u...

  • SurveyJS

    Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

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  • youtube-dl

    Unofficial daily builds for youtube-dl. DO NOT OPEN PULL REQUESTS HERE (by ytdl-patched)

  • SponsorBlock

    Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension)

    • This is from the same person that made sponsorblock https://sponsor.ajay.app/

    This means that it's the community that sees sensational thumbnails and changes them to some other thumbnail. By default dearrow shows random thumbnails if no other were provided by the community. But you can disable this and show original thumbnails, but if there is a community submitted thumbnail it will show the community submitted one. I think for example the arte thumbnails won't get changed to other thumbnails as they are not sensational/clickbaity/mouth open.

  • PeerTube

    ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

    • If people don’t want to pay for YouTube, then why not use peertube[0]?

    I don’t understand the arguments here. If you don’t want ads, then pay for Premium. It’s fantastic that an option exists to solve the problem! If you don’t like the price, then don’t pay for it.

    Somehow people have got it in their minds that YouTube owes them content for free. That’s a great mindset to make the shift to peertube and away from YouTube, but I don’t think it holds up as justification for getting mad at YouTube for forcing their preexisting paid plan to remove ads.

    Either pay for YouTube Premium or shift to a different model of video sharing. Both options currently exist!

    [0] https://joinpeertube.org/

  • playlet

    The unofficial, privacy driven, YouTube client for Roku

    • At least for Roku, I recently found and had good luck with https://github.com/iBicha/playlet

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