FreeTube VS NewPipe

Hey Google, here's a suggestion: how about you make it possible to restrict a kids' account to only be able to view certain channels, disabling "the algorithm" altogether?

Of course, that would lead to kids seeing less videos, so that is of course not an option, so while Google now tunes the algorithm a bit w.r.t. weight and fitness, it is of course no problem that any young boy wanting to see some gaming videos will still be lead straightly to "Jordan Peterson destroying this feminist" and Joe Rogan interviewing some nutjob and saying steroids are fine but vaccines are evil.

So here we are, but fortunately, there's a solution: Disable Youtube everywhere except on a little Linux desktop PC, install freetube

https://freetubeapp.io/

Add channels that are fine, set a PIN for changing the channel list, and voila, a safe Youtube environment.

In your comment you said "the first video taken down from LTT", which is not true.

Yes, this might be the first video removed for _one specific reason_. This also might be the first video where he broke external links policy[1]

> Links to websites, apps, or other sources that give unauthorized access to audio content, audiovisual content, video games, software, or streaming services that normally require payment

as he left a sequence of links to "alternative YouTube UI"[2]

> YouTube Alternative Frontends - FreeTube - https://freetubeapp.io/ - LibreTube - https://libretube.dev/ - Yattee - https://github.com/yattee/yattee - Invidious - https://invidious.io/ - GrayJay - https://grayjay.app/ - Newpipe - https://newpipe.net/

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9054257?hl=en&ref_...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwP6S_jf7g

don't forget to donate something:

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube?tab=readme-ov-file#d...

On desktop I moved all my preferred channels on FreeTube and couldn't be more happy.

https://freetubeapp.io/

Occasionally it may break because for obvious reasons Google does their best to force people to use their unwatchable page, but usually the fix comes out very quickly.

The only way I view Youtube is through FreeTube (desktop Linux [1]) and NewPipe (Android [2]). I would not be surprised it Google finally killed their access in some way.

[1] https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/

I've been using youtube-dl for years. And https://freetubeapp.io/ is amazing. But what I really want is right in the gui where the video is playing being able to mark timecode1,timecode2 and then download just that small clip.

Flow like this: hit spacebar to pause, then press A to mark that SpotA and then hit space bar again to resume playing... space again to pause, then press B to mark that SpotB. Download and repeat again for another section in video.

Before I build myself a gui to do this, is there a good way already?

The biggest reason I use FreeTube (https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube), is because it shows me uploads in chronological order from ALL of my channels, which youtube outright refuses to do.

In your comment you said "the first video taken down from LTT", which is not true.

Yes, this might be the first video removed for _one specific reason_. This also might be the first video where he broke external links policy[1]

> Links to websites, apps, or other sources that give unauthorized access to audio content, audiovisual content, video games, software, or streaming services that normally require payment

as he left a sequence of links to "alternative YouTube UI"[2]

> YouTube Alternative Frontends - FreeTube - https://freetubeapp.io/ - LibreTube - https://libretube.dev/ - Yattee - https://github.com/yattee/yattee - Invidious - https://invidious.io/ - GrayJay - https://grayjay.app/ - Newpipe - https://newpipe.net/

[1] https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9054257?hl=en&ref_...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHwP6S_jf7g

They're apparently going hard this time, no known way to play anything anymore.

Playing on the website without an account still works.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11254

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10397

https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/3606

I had interpreted the news as affecting all users of the other tools. Found https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11139 with very few comments so I don't get the impression it's affecting NewPipe specifically as yet.

Just use NewPipe. It's just a better Youtube client even if it had ads.

https://newpipe.net/