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I'm using a private [1] Invidious [2] instance on all platforms to gain access to Youtube content without feeding the beast more than needed. The advantage of something like Invidious is that it allows you to access subscriptions anywhere you can access the 'net instead of just on those platforms where you installed something like Freetube or Newpipe or any of the other alternative clients.
[1] private for now since my instance ended up being very popular in Japan for some reason, this being rather odd given that I live in Sweden. I'll keep it private for a few months and open it up again to see whether traffic remains within reasonable bounds.
I love NewPipe and use it heavily on my phone and Shield TV.
Not at all feature complete yet, but looks like a really nice project.
Android TV: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTubeNext
I have had a love-hate relationship with YouTube for a long time. On the one hand, many channels put out great content that I want to watch. But the recommended videos feature is exceptional at hooking into my reptilian brain and getting me to waste a lot of time on junk that I later regret as a big waste of time.
I looked into a lot of alternative clients, including FreeTube, in an attempt to solve this. I use Tube Archivist[1], an open-source project that allows you to subscribe to and auto-download YouTube channels and playlists or download individual videos and watch them in a minimal web interface. It works fine on iOS as long as you set it up to download in an iOS-compatible format. I currently have it running in a Docker container on my Synology NAS.
I believe they have a manager now, like the vanced mananger. https://github.com/revanced/revanced-manager
Darnit, I already wrote the rest of the comment below before noticing the "iOS" part of your comment. These are all Firefox add-ons for the desktop. Still, I'll post them in case they're useful to anyone else.
I use the unhook add-on for that, it removes all recommended videos:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
There's also clickbait remover to get rid of those obnoxious thumbnails:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
youtube-audio lets you disable the video-feed. Nice when you're using it to listen to what are basically podcasts and you don't want to waste bandwidth:
https://github.com/animeshkundu/youtube-audio
And while we're here, SponsorBlock skips sponsored segments:
Darnit, I already wrote the rest of the comment below before noticing the "iOS" part of your comment. These are all Firefox add-ons for the desktop. Still, I'll post them in case they're useful to anyone else.
I use the unhook add-on for that, it removes all recommended videos:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-recom...
There's also clickbait remover to get rid of those obnoxious thumbnails:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clickbait-rem...
youtube-audio lets you disable the video-feed. Nice when you're using it to listen to what are basically podcasts and you don't want to waste bandwidth:
https://github.com/animeshkundu/youtube-audio
And while we're here, SponsorBlock skips sponsored segments:
I would counter that by asking how someone who is not blessed by the almighty advertizer-friendly algorithm can ever be seen. I suggest that the internet is healthiest when anyone has a more equal chance of gaining a following because they organically went viral or were upvoted by users like frequently happens on mastodon or even hackernews... even if the content is not advertiser friendly.
I understand what YouTube is quite well. The product is providing the most addictive advertiser friendly content possible that ignores all mental health studies. The product is cigarettes and like cigarettes, their use will only be reduced when enough people are educated on the harms and reject the second hand smoke in our public places.
Humans are capable of simply searching for things and subscribing to things like RSS. RSS was peak internet and ActivityPub is the next generation of this. We can go back to that, while maybe adding unbiased, open source, and provably fair user voted topical discovery engines.
https://odysee.com/ is getting close with an open source system with community voted content discovery and creator support via microtransaction tips. You do not need to be advertiser friendly to succeed there, and we all get the same view of the world.
videodeck for youtube is an alright interface
i ended up using this script that adds new videos into predefined playlists
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/Elijas/auto-...
this is one feature i wish more 3rd party clients had, instead of just sorting channels into categories, only do new videos in playlists which is easier to manage.
videodeck for youtube is an alright interface
i ended up using this script that adds new videos into predefined playlists
https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/Elijas/auto-...
this is one feature i wish more 3rd party clients had, instead of just sorting channels into categories, only do new videos in playlists which is easier to manage.
might have missed it but i am surprised nobody mentioned LibreTube / Piped here (https://piped.video).
it is open source (for both client and hosting), and allows all the major features advertised here.