I use Freetube. Its a app, you don’t sign in, you can subscribe to stuff but those are stored locally (as I understand it?), adblock, sponsorblock, hide shorts etc are built in. Of course since you don’t use it with a account, you can’t comment, but that’s just a nice bonus feature. You can still read the comments if you so choose. Because it doesn’t load all the trackers and bullshit, its also about a billion times lighter than the youtube page, which is nice since my laptop is 700 years old and struggles to run anything, really.
It does have “popular” and “trending” pages but those rarely work, another nice bonus.
The only downside is that there is no “sort by popular” option when browsing a channels videos. But all in all, highly recommend it. Apparently there are other such apps available but thats the only one I’ve used.
This article is about RSS feeds. Im pretty sure your client relies on RSS feeds to show you your locally subscribed feed of videos.
Yes, that’s why I thought I’d mention the thing. Sorry for not being clear, English is not my native language.
Could have fooled me! Your English is immaculate! 👍👍
Hehe. Funnily enough, English is the 3rd non-native language I learned but the only one I actually know these days. I’ve forgotten pretty much everything of the others.
Doing better than me. I barely even speak one language and you speak multiple!
I just meant that the other languages I once learned, I don’t know anymore. :D Its been such a long time since I used them at all, I can understand some individual words if I read them, I can say “my name is ____” and “hello” in those languages but thats about it.
But yeah, I know how to speak my native language and English, thats two, so its technically correct that I know “multiple” languages :D
YouTube has made all these apps completely useless by blocking users that aren’t logged in.
Works fine for me. Literally never had a issue.
I’m not logged into youtube with any device because google demands to know my phone number in order to “verify” its me, logging into my youtube account. So as a solution I just don’t log in anymore. I still watch stuff though.
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get content creators.
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hide their feeds so they don’t make money. Use the algorithm to feed up creators the viewer didn’t subscribe to, so that they watch randos.
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Profit.
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I generate my YouTube feeds through RSSHub which also uses the API, so its a bit more durable than the officially provided feeds
It also has options for filtering out shorts which is nice
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this is intended behaviour. rss feeds don’t drive up engagement.
I browse the internet through RSS. You won’t convince me to go back to opening 100 different browser tabs just to keep track of all your walled gardens.
It’s daily 3-5h outage at this point on all youtube channel feeds. About 3:00-7:00 AM Greenwich time.
Oh thank fuck it isn’t just me. That’s about the afternoon/evening in the U.S.
