YouTube gave me this ad after I searched for crossdressing tutorials one time. Do you peeps know any YouTube alternative I can use so I can stop paying Google? thanks

• PeerTube

  409 12,600 9.9 TypeScript

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

The best option for a YouTube alternative right now is PeerTube, since it's part of the Fediverse, which is the same network that Mastodon is part of. This means that, like Mastodon, anyone can host their own PeerTube instance, and people from one instance can interact with posts on another instance. And since they're on the same network, Mastodon users can directly comment on PeerTube videos without needing a PeerTube account. The lack of large centralized infrastructure also means that PeerTube doesn't have to force advertisements to get funding to manage server costs.

• Invidious

  422 15,028 9.5 Crystal

  Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Piped

  235 7,546 9.8 Vue

  An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

  

On desktop, the most straightforward option is to use uBlock Origin, which blocks advertisements and client-side tracking. Note that Google's plan to kill off Manifest V2 (which adblockers rely on) has been delayed, but will still likely happen in the near future and you should switch to Firefox (or a Firefox-based browser) if you haven't yet. If you want an alternative frontend that makes requests to YouTube on your behalf, so they can't track you at all, check out Piped or Invidious.

• NewPipe

  2,059 28,707 9.8 Java

  A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.

  

For Android, I suggest either NewPipe, or ReVanced. (ReVanced requires a bit of setup work, likely to avoid the legal issues that Vanced got into.)

• revanced-manager

  1,001 15,684 9.7 Dart

  💊 Application to use ReVanced on Android

  

if your on android you could use Youtube ReVanced to get rid of ads and get background play etc

• SaaSHub

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  SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

  

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