Comment on Youtube has started to artificially slow down video load times if you use Firefox

• Nelots@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Piped is just too inconsistent for me. I gave it a solid month or two, but half the time I open it up none of the instances are loading any videos. Eventually I gave up and looked into other options, ended up using FreeTube.

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  • Holzkohlen@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Freetube on desktop, Newpipe on android. This is the way.

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    • MaggiWuerze@feddit.de ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Revanced would like to know your location

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    • b0gl@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This is what I do as well

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    It does have it’s issues, can’t deny that. Can use LibreTube as Android app and 99.9% of my youtube viewing is on mobile

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    • Aermis@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      How does libretube compare with revanced?

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      • dan@upvote.au ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Libretube is a totally different app whereas Revanced is just some patches on top of the official YouTube app, so the feature sets are going to vary a lot between the two. Libretube doesn’t let you log in to a Google account at all (but it does support importing a subscription list).

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• DuskyRo@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  If only there was an easy way to selfhost piped or viewtube…

  I swear there would be more instances if they made an easy step by step guide but I guess that’s life when you choose FOSS…

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  • Flying_Hellfish@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’m not sure if this post was /s or not, but ViewTube is actually pretty easy to self host if you have a docker host in your current environment. They even provide a docker compose example on the wiki.

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• Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Could someone please give me a rundown of how these work/if they have mobile apps? I’ve been paying for premium pretty much since Vanced was killed (and also before I found Vanced) and really the only thing that’s stopped me from using a YouTube mirror is the lack of good mobile applications.

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  • illi@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I found this is good explention:

    LibreTube is on F-Droid for an Android app, pretty sure there is something for iOS as well but not sure. It hs its issues but I manage. Set up low tier patreon for some content creators from my “premium budget” too.

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    • Bernie_Sandals@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’d actually quite interesting, thank you, I’ll definitely have to look into that more

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  • b0gl@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Try newpipe through f-droid

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