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NewPipe/PipePipe-like app for Linux? (beehaw.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Any YouTube client that doesn't track me that works on Linux or in Firefox?

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 7 months ago

https://freetubeapp.io and available as verified flatpak : https://flathub.org/apps/io.freetubeapp.FreeTube

[–] [email protected] 25 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'd recommend FreeTube.

It has its own backend, but it can also use Invidious. As such, you can also run NewLeaf (an Invidious-compatible YouTube scraper based on the NewPipe scraper) in the background and connect to it via FreeTube, and that should work.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Freetube supports maximum 1080p, you should specify it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I would say Freetube, it's very similar to android alternatives but in Linux, can proxy your traffic trough individious' instances.. The only downside is the 1080p limitation

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why the limitation?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

It's a bit strange because I've that I can play some videos @ 4k with no problems. And this limitation is here the most of the time, because you have to change the video format (mainly switch to webpm), and this format is not really supported by piped and individious...

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Plasmatube https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/plasmatube

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

There are solutions that work. Like you, I would enjoy a simple app that allows for subscriptions and playlists without tracking or using an account. I mostly use RSS feeds (newsboat) and watch the videos through mpv.

And yt-fzf is great too. It uses invidious instances instead of YouTube links.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I used freetube a few years ago, but i dont know if the project is still active. Was a bit buggy, but acceptable for me

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago

Been using it for half a year now, it's amazing and running flawlessly as a flatpak on Fedora for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I can confirm it's greatly improved in terms of reliability in the last couple of years.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

At this point, it works more reliably than playing Youtube videos in a web browser.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

freetube is amazing

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/#youtube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I run LibreTube through Waydroid, but you have to enable HLS and do a bit of instancehopping to get it to work.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

SMTube still seems to exist