silly lil jesterAlternative for YouTube?
kylian0087Take a look at Odysee. I even have a browser extention that redirects me from youtube to the video on Odysee if it is avilable their.
Looks very clean. But the issue to me and with a lot of new social media sites is the lack of population and thus the lack of content. I'll try to stick to Lemmy and give it a chance but yeah it is a huge barrier of entry for new competitors.
undefined> the lack of content.
I have the same issue. That is why i still use youtube for example but the extention allows me to slowly migrate to odysee. If the creator also uploads their videos to Odysee without me knowing the extention will make me aware of it by redirecting me to the Odysee variant of the video instead of youtube.
What's the extension?
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/watch-on-odysee/
It is called "Watch on odysee"
Revanced on android has been good for me lately
htmonoRevanced is amazing and does what it says it does. +1 from me too.
chaercoffeefor android, i recommend newpipe and libreture. in my experience, newpipe is more stable but you can give those two a try and see what you prefer.
I personally self host my own Viewtube using docker and it works really well.
GitHub - ViewTube/viewtube: ▶️ ViewTube: The open source, privacy-conscious way to enjoy your favorite YouTube content. Docs: https://viewtube.wiki, Status: https://uptime.m-o.dev/status
▶️ ViewTube: The open source, privacy-conscious way to enjoy your favorite YouTube content. Docs: https://viewtube.wiki, Status: https://uptime.m-o.dev/status - GitHub - ViewTube/viewtube: ▶️ ViewT...
Since you seem knowledgeable, I have a marginally related question. Do you know any dockers that can scrape a YouTube playlist automatically and put it in a Plex folder?
bruhduhYt-dlp app can download playlists and whole channels also batch download supported, just set download to folder you need, from text file in which your channels/playlists listed, and add recurring cron job to repeat downloading new videos as they appear
Hm, I'll have to try again with that. I tried a couple, but I think that one would download one or two videos then quit.
Appreciate the info!
I had the same problem, to work properly app need to set proper arguments like "yt-dlp -abcd" and some people had problem with downloading speed, this problem was solved with usage of custom downloader option of yt-dlp, as custom downloader aria2 app was used with options to split downloaded file into 16 chunks downloaded in parallel, also as channels change names of videos you can accidentally download same file multiple times, to avoid that use dedication like fdupes or something, imo you should delve deeper into it and slap some bash script for your personal needs), then recurring cron job to repeat that script when you need it
Well since I did none of that, that would explain why it didn't work. Thanks again!
Because YouTube videos keep getting deleted I download all my favorites and host on my Jellyfin server.
Same! So much better this way. I wrote my own program so it just automatically downloads new videos from channels I've told it I'm interested in, and then it puts it in the appropriate Jellyfin folder. Way more reliable this way, I don't miss videos. And I don't care if my internet shits the bed, it can take however long it wants to take to download and once it's there I can even watch it even with no internet. I even implemented sponsorblock in it so Jellyfin automatically skips sponsored segments.
If you’re on iOS, there is uYou++. It’s a YouTube client, but you could find the experience better. You can use AltStore or similar to side load it
Edit: I don’t ever use it on mobile. Desktop via Firefox only.
An Invidious instance or mpv (with yt-fzf for example).
Personally, I use yt-fzf for searching (no thumbnails though) and newsboat (a cli rss reader) for subscribing to YouTube channels then I can load up videos from there to mpv. I just press the "o" key on my keyboard when a new video comes out and it plays on mpv.
pokkstFor desktop: Piped or Invidious instances, like piped.kavin.rocks
If you want to completely get rid of YouTube, then PeerTube or Odysee is nice.
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Hellfire103On desktop, first try VLC Media Player. It's very good for streams and videos on both YouTube and Twitch. Failing that, mpv is also very good.
If you'd just prefer a website, have a look at Piped. Invidious and CloudTube are also good, but they can be a bit hit-and-miss with which videos they can play, in my experience; and Invidious is also currently being attacked by Google's lawyers.
fwgxWhat are you hoping to achieve here? If you just dont want the tracking then I've found Firefox containers and the CookieAutoDelete extensions to be excellent. Contain YouTube to its own container that no other site uses and as soon as the tab closes all the cookies are deleted too. Enable all the strict privacy controls in FF too.
If you want a way to view YouTube with no ads, no trackers and with dislikes, Vanced is the way to go. As far as I know their github is still active.
Hal_Canaryin what way is watching YouTube on an open source web browser not open enough?