• boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
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      7 days ago

      Freetube uses Electron. The Flatpak is 240MB in size, the Newpipe + Translation layer is 40MB

      It also doesnt bundle an often outdated version of Chromium, as found in Electron

      But I tried Newpipe Flatpak and it was blocked totally. May have been because of my VPN though. Freetube had the same issues.

      Grayjay is king at block circumvention

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        7 days ago

        Good to know, thanks. If the FreeTube flatpak is working for me, I might as well try the Newpipe one if it’s that much better. I guess I just assumed that the translation layer would add CPU overhead.

        I’ll have to look into Grayjay. Is there a flatpak? I’m on immutable, so flatpak is much preferred.