Want to see YouTube videos with their downvote counts, no ads, no tracking and even embedded Reddit comments? There are several alternative front-ends which allow you to do that.

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  • Invidious

    Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

  • One of the most used is Invidous, which has several online instances as yewtu.be. Watching a YouTube video with it is easy, all you have to do is to replace the "youtube" part on the beginning of its URL address - so for example for this video:

  • WorkOS

    The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

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NOTE: The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives. Hence, a higher number means a more popular project.

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