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uYouPlus
Discontinued uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!
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xManager-Spotify
Discontinued Ad-Free, New Features & Freedom [Moved to: https://github.com/xManager-App/xManager]
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The number of mentions on this list indicates mentions on common posts plus user suggested alternatives.
Hence, a higher number means a better SmartTube alternative or higher similarity.
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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses
If you have a FireTV stick or something Android based for your TV, I can recommend SmartTubenext for browsing/watching YouTube.
I still use AppleTV for pretty much everything else, but got a firetv stick just to use that. https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
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YouTube DRM added on ALL videos with TV (TVHTML5) clients
Presumably this for now has only been seen for a specific tv client API that yt-dlp use and not all youtube videos (well, https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/4444 also saw it for "members-only" videos but again not all videos).
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Also I suppose you make a reference to software DRM like Widevine L3 vs L1 (same thing for PlayReady SL2000 vs SL3000) which is not exactly Firefox vs Chrome. Firefox has even be known to work on the availability of hardware DRM on windows right now, (through the Media Foundation API I think?).
In the worst scenarios seen right now for example seen on services like Netflix, would be to only have lower qualities (e.g. 480p max) on browsers with only Software DRM available (like firefox) and encrypt better qualities with keys only available when there is hardware DRM available.
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More users are watching YouTube on TV than mobile
For anyone considering whether watching YouTube on TV might be better or worse than on the phone, I'd like to point out SmartTube: https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Ad blocking, integrated sponsorblock, and other desirable features.
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YouTube in Android introduces UI bugs
and SmartTube (https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube) if you have an Android TV.
- SmartTube – an advanced player for set-top boxes and TVs running Android OS
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Show HN: If YouTube had actual channels
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube Is great for chromecasts and other google tv boxes. Basically newpipe, but in a tv format.
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YouTube is returning 403 to NewPipe and other 3rd party players
They're apparently going hard this time, no known way to play anything anymore.
Playing on the website without an account still works.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11254
https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10397
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube/issues/3606
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Show HN: An open source extension to block large media brands from Google search
The Brave browser and/or SmartTube seem to work for me. Now we just need a smooth way to transition from when clicking on a youtube link - to have an option to open one of those two (for desktop and mobile). Does anyone have any better options?
https://brave.com/
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
- De-Googling, So Far
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YouTube to start blocking third-party apps that don't show ads
Can't recommend SmartTube enough: https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Includes crowdsourced sponsor block as well. The day YouTube goes the Twitch route and starts embedding ads is the day I stop using it. Literally unwatchable at this point without adblocking.
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yuliskov/SmartTube is an open source project licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0 or later which is an OSI approved license.
The primary programming language of SmartTube is Java.
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