Hi everyone!
I’ve almost entirely degoogled my life, except for Youtube.
Here are my center of interests and some channels I follow:
- Linux: The Linux Experiment, Tech Hut
- Basketball: NBA, Andy Hoops, Heat Check, Jonny Arnett, BasketNews
- Cars: Throttle House, Everyday Driver, Car and Driver
- Console Gaming: GamingBolt, IGN
- Tech: Linus Tech Tips, Techquickie
Concerning Linux, it has been easy to find alternatives to YouTube as The Linux Experiment is on PeerTube and I can support him for 1$ a month Through Patreon.
Tech Hut is on Odysee so I could watch his videos here and support him through Buy Me A Coffee or something similar if I wanted to.
I know I could watch everything from the Linus Tech Tips on Floatplane but 5$ a month is a bit too expensive.
Do you have any suggestions about anyone producing similar content to what I’ve described above (Basketball, Console Gaming, Cars and Tech) that I could watch on a YouTube alternative?
I don’t mind paying 1-2$ a month for a channel I enjoy but I can’t pay more for now 😇
Patreon is your main choice I think. Many youtubers post videos there. Though you might have to pay a lot if you subscribe to a lot of creators.
You can also consider a FOSS YouTube client but the most privacy-focused ones are dead now unfortunately.
Unfortunately it has the “Sign in to confirm that you’re not a bot” issue like 99% of the clients. That’s what I meant in “dead”. Also it’s not the most privacy-protecting one by far.
I’ve never had NewPipe present me with a sign in prompt or any bot challenges, that’s a very strange scenario to be facing.
LibreTube works just fine if you disable proxying. FreeTube / FreeTubeCordova also works perfectly fine.
Libretube gives the error for me either straight away or after a few videos. Sometimes using a VPN and changing servers all the time helps.
FreeTube is a desktop only app unfortunately.
Libretube gives the error for me either straight away or after a few videos. Sometimes using a VPN and changing servers all the time helps.
Have you tried disabling the Piped proxy?
FreeTube is a desktop only app unfortunately.
I’ve linked FreeTube Android in my first comment, actually.
I wish there was a YouTube equivalent of Sonarr that just uses yt-dl to auto-grab and organize YT channels you want as new episodes come out. Then you could just play with Plex or Jellyfin.
Maybe this would be useful for organizing?
EDIT: Forgot link: https://github.com/tubearchivist/tubearchivist
There is
I’ve seen that but either I’m an idiot or that is a CLI tool. What makes Sonarr nice is that it’s config is all done through a web browser meaning you don’t need to edit config files anytime you want to change something.
Thank you for sharing though I may try and get it set up one day
YouTube anonymous and/or ad-free is fine I think. Especially if you’re not hooked in to everything else. Even with all their bullshit the last few years it’s only been one or two hiccups.
-ReVanced
-NewPipe
-Freetube
-yt-dlp
The beast can be controlled.
For finding content creators on alternative services, maybe use Grayjay for Android? It aggregates multiple services into a single, mostly concise UI, and when you do a search, Grayjay can search all services at once. Also recently it added a recommended tab, which should help finding new channels on the go.
Not really an answer to your question, but I’ll share my approach. Youtube channels have rss feeds, so you can “subscribe” using any rss reader, and don’t need to login.
So I just use firefox with the following addons. A seperate youtube container + adblock + in-video ad skip + age verification skip + feedbro as rss reader.