I’m not sure it’s the “best” way, but it’s a solid alternative, and receives rapid updates when YouTube moves to break things.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/15571129
I’m using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.
And the best part is no ads whatsoever.
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Freetube is a frontend client that uses YouTube.
Sorry, I didn’t read the article. Thanks for picking me up on it.
I just use my Brave browser which avoids ads and doesn’t require login but I see now that FreeTube offers a few customisation features and allows you to import your subscriptions.
And there are privacy benefits too. With Freetube your watch history is stored only on your computer, not YouTube’s servers
Really? I imagine it is free because FreeTube collect data on you.
I imagine it is free because FreeTube collect data on you.
It doesn’t have to sell user data if it doesn’t have to make money if it is run by volunteers.
You can disable watch history in your Google/YouTube account as well. It’s not like you’re forced to have it on native YouTube either.
Wikipedia, Whirlpool, GiHub are the only big sites I can think of which resisted going commercial. They may still be selling user data though.
Can you think of others?
