Windows Phone gets revenge on YouTube from the grave by helping users bypass its ad-blocker-blocker::Windows Phone to the rescue. A lot of YouTube users want to know how to get around the new annoying YouTube pop-up telling viewers to disable their ad-blocker.
This article feels like a large language model generated article.
TLDR: use a user agent switcher
Other advice: use Firefox from f Droid, or Mull and install U-Block origin. Use new pipe, or libretube to avoid ads as well
FreeTube, free open source YT client for desktop (Win, Mac, Linux). Been using it for past few days and despite being alpha, it works quite well. No data sent to YT except video requests. Subscriptions are stored locally and you can create profiles to separate subscriptions.
https://freetubeapp.io/
I love free tube. But I can’t quite figure it out. It works great on two of my computers. But on one of my computers is just dog slow. No matter which setting I fiddle with. So it’s definitely alpha, if it works for you it’s amazing.
Only tried it on Windows 10 and I have a beast of a desktop machine (Ryzen 9 5950x, 128GB RAM and a Radeon X5600XT, built it for virtualization). Will try it on Linux later today and on my laptop.
Surprisingly, it’s my most powerful machine, that has the worst video playback. With constant pauses.
I’m running free tube on Mac OS, Windows 11, Windows 10, Fedora inside of qubes.
The settings are identical, I think it’s something with the local API proxy. I just check it up to the alpha stage and inconsistent environments.
Now there’s grayjay as well, which is a universal media streaming client that respects your privacy.
Is that android phone only? I mean it would be cool to have it both on desktop and android tv…
You can run it under Amazon android emulator, but still has glitches regarding screen usage.
Well. Is it possible? Yes. Is it user friendly and optimized? Not really.
That’s why it would be great to have native app.
I read somewhere there is talk of it coming to desktop.
Run Android Subsystem for Windows, problem solved.
Well, I know the solution exists, but it hardly counts as a desktop app. I’d prefer something native (esp. for linux).
Right?
Every other sentence was something about how Google wouldn’t work with Microsoft.
Points were repeated ad nauseum
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It might be great. But you’re still patching closed source binaries with dubious patches. It’s not great information security hygiene. If you’re on Android, I’d recommend new pipe as both safer and more vetted.
Please enjoy it, by all means, just be aware that it does have a different threat model
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New pipe and pipe are different projects.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
But yeah I hate that invictius / piped bot. I’ve blocked The bot. It adds nothing to the conversations
Newpipe works good too. you can Downloads videos with options audio or video!
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You don’t, but for people like me, who want to save data, we download audio, especially 2 and 3 hours long and we listen all day long. Newpipe has SoundCloud too, I use it alot!
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Non-free bad. 👎
Newpipe 4 life.
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