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Posts with mentions or reviews of FreeTube. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-10-27.
  • NewPipe on Linux, Using Android_translation_layer
    13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Oct 2024
  • YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationally
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 23 Sep 2024
  • YouTube to restrict teenagers' exposure to videos about weight and fitness
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Sep 2024
    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.

  • LTT video on de-Googling removed for "violating community guidelines"
    6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 5 Sep 2024
    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

  • Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Aug 2024
    don't forget to donate something:

    https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube?tab=readme-ov-file#d...

  • LG and Samsung Are Making TV Screens Disappear
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 31 Jul 2024
    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.

  • MeTube: Self-Hosted YouTube Downloader
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Jul 2024
  • YouTube is A/B testing limiting logged out access to videos
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2024
    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/

  • Ask HN: Good way to extract small parts of YouTube videos as you watch
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Jun 2024
    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?

  • A Lawsuit Argues Meta Is Required by Law to Let You Control Your Own Feed
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 May 2024
    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.
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FreeTubeApp/FreeTube is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.

FreeTube is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.

The primary programming language of FreeTube is JavaScript.


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