Invidious VS FreeTube

I'm looking for an answer to that. https://invidious.io/ looks like what I want, but I haven't tried it to see.

Invidious is in a precarious position right now: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...

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

I love invidious but two or three times a month, youtube rolls out an update that breaks it.

eg, last week (not yet bypassed): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734

There’s comments on the issue that suggest that this is impacting any YouTube user rather than just Invidious users: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...

Youtube seems to be doing some A/B testing with the comment system which has made proxies like Invidious and yt-dlp/Newpipe unable to load comments. There is a patch for Invidious [1] which solves this problem but it is not in master yet. I tested it on my own instance and it does solve the problem.

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4576

BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files

Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624

Could anybody explain it to me?

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.