playlet
The unofficial, privacy driven, YouTube client for Roku (by iBicha)
SponsorBlock
Skip YouTube video sponsors (browser extension) (by ajayyy)
| playlet | SponsorBlock | |
|---|---|---|
| 8 | 904 | |
| 256 | 8,831 | |
| - | - | |
| 9.8 | 9.3 | |
| 3 days ago | 13 days ago | |
| BrighterScript | TypeScript | |
| GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
playlet
Posts with mentions or reviews of playlet.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-02-01.
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Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
Also in this realm, for Roku there is https://github.com/iBicha/playlet which works great when hooked up to my self-hosted Invidious instance.
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For the record, YT ads are not 5 second skipable
Playlet for Roku TV https://channelstore.roku.com/en-ca/details/840aec36f51bfe6d96cf6db9055a372a/playlet It's not perfect, but you can definitely watch youtube videos with no ads. Disclaimer: I'm the creator of Playlet, a free open source alternative https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
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FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
At least for Roku, I recently found and had good luck with https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
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Playlet: Youtube for Roku TV, 0.10.0 release!
And here's some screenshots
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Developer mode?
You can sideload unofficial apps, such as Playlet (ad-free youtube + sponsorblock)
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LPT: Whenever you see a non-skippable ad, close your eyes and mute your device. From now on, every annoying ad will be a little respite for your eyes and mind.
Playlet for Roku TVs https://github.com/iBicha/playlet
- Playlet: an Invidious frontend for Roku TV
SponsorBlock
Posts with mentions or reviews of SponsorBlock.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-13.
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Show HN: CTRL-F for YouTube Videos
just use sponsorblock today, works fine on all my devices. https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock
from mobile phone to tv to pc.
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The creator economy can't rely on Patreon
You are one of today's 10,000.
https://sponsor.ajay.app/
And if you have android:
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular
- The Self Balancing Monorail [video]
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YouTube strikes again, it seems
The SponsorBlock [0] addon has already solved that for sponsored/ad segments in videos. Rather than AI, crowdsourced timestamps lets it automatically skip past adverts.
[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/
- Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29
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Adfree Cities: for happier, healthier cities
For integrated ads on YouTube (sponsor messages), you can use the SponsorBlock extension (https://sponsor.ajay.app/). If you're using Android, you can also get NewPipe with SponsorBlock integration.
- Adblocker
- Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users
- What are your top browser extensions that have become absolute game-changers?
- Are there any UBlock settings to skip "self promotion" inside youtube videos or does i have to use a separate extension?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing playlet and SponsorBlock you can also consider the following projects:
youtube-dl - Unofficial daily builds for youtube-dl. DO NOT OPEN PULL REQUESTS HERE
NewPipe - A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
Piped - An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Invidious - Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
Spotify-Ad-Blocker - EZBlocker - A Spotify Ad Blocker for Windows
NewPipe - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock functionality.
nextdns - NextDNS CLI client (DoH Proxy)
yt-dlp - A feature-rich command-line audio/video downloader
uBlock-issues - This is the community-maintained issue tracker for uBlock Origin
TwitchAdSolutions
SmartYouTubeTV - Watch YouTube videos on your TV and set-top-box with comfort
Pi-hole - A black hole for Internet advertisements
playlet vs youtube-dl
SponsorBlock vs NewPipe
playlet vs Piped
SponsorBlock vs Invidious
SponsorBlock vs Spotify-Ad-Blocker
SponsorBlock vs NewPipe
SponsorBlock vs nextdns
SponsorBlock vs yt-dlp
SponsorBlock vs uBlock-issues
SponsorBlock vs TwitchAdSolutions
SponsorBlock vs SmartYouTubeTV
SponsorBlock vs Pi-hole