As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead.
Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l’d still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped).
Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I’m aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I’m more interested in just “subscribing”, kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS
Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to !FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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I just use yt-dlp and VLC ¯\(ツ)/¯
Newpipe still works on Android.
PipePipe has even more sources.
I thought I was the only one.
There are dozens of us! Dozens!
Pump these numbers up brotha
I like that pipepipe provides an option to use a Google account fall back for videos that are age verified, since those don’t work anymore without an account.
And they got a content filter update too so can block channels and keywords.
NewPipe or Patched YouTube App using ReVanced Manager
yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all <url>is the way. It turns playlist link into nicely named, curated video files awaiting to played by a regular video playerDoes “all” remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.
That seems like it would screw the creators more than YouTube.
Possibly, but for how ad laiden YT has become it’s a path I’m willing to take.
Grayjay by FUTO has been working well for me
Grayjay started shitting the bed on me recently (Android via Samsung and Graphene, and on Desktop Linux/Windows) unless I disable vpn.
Even with Agent andDNS whitelisting for the apps.
A bit of a bummer after recently donating.
That’s not GrayJay. That’s YT. They’ve started blocking access to users who use a VPN without logging in.
God forbid they don’t know everything about you.
Edit: response from FUTO
Seems to be related to UMP streams and we have issue opened for it and it’s top priority for us to fix this now. It is however very complex so it takes time to fix it but at least we figured out why it is happening and once it is fixed it should be a smooth experience on Youtube at least for a while until they change something else on their backend…
Aye, that was my suspicion. Really awesome to be stripped of options for privacy so they can suck down that data.
Yt-dlp still works thankfully.
Forgot about that one but it’s only on Android (mobile-wise)
Sorry to be the bearer of good news, but you’re wrong…
Oh, I wasn’t sure what platform you needed. For iOS, yeah I have no idea. For anyone else that comes across this though, Grayjay also has a desktop app now
Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.
I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606
Edit: One of the benefits of using selfhosted RSS with a web interface is that it is platform agnostic.
No worries! This setup ended up working better than I thought, and I’ve been using it as my primary way of interfacing with youtube.
I believe that YouTube supports RSS. I haven’t used it in years, but gPodder allowed subscribing to channels.
Ah, yeah. From this post:
- Go to the YouTube channel page.
- Click more for the About box.
- Scroll down to click Share channel. Choose Copy channel ID.
- Get the feed from
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=plus that channel ID from the previous step.
From there, something (like a podcast client) needs to grab the video.
Otherwise, I’ve been using Tartube to download to my media server, which is not great but fine, except for needing to delete the lock file when it (or the computer) crashes, and the fact that the media server hasn’t the foggiest idea of how to organize the “episodes.”
Thanks for this! It actually works with a regular RSS reader, nice!
Orion browser works fine for me on iOS
On my phone I still use LibreTube but with the option to load the video directly from YouTube (essentially doing what NewPipe is doing) and on PC I just use YouTube’s directly. I still use Piped to keep my subscriptions synchronized tho.
Freetube and
mpv(usesyt-dlpin the background) work well for me 🤷I love freetube for my android and Linux PCs.
Freetube works well on windows and macos too
I was using freshrss which can grab the rad feed for a channel, but I’ve moved to tube archivist with a Jellyfin plugin. Now they are all predownloaded and just show up on my tv via Jellyfin app.
It’s a way better way to keep track of what you want to watch.
Just curious if there’s a setting in any of those applications that removes downloaded videos which have been watched at least once, and after x amount of time? It’s sort of like a watch list. If watched, I don’t want to keep the video. But if I do, I can add it to a playlist and let PinchFlat download it for archive.
Deleting after x days is possible with Pinchflat, iirc.
I don’t think it checks if the video is watched in Jellyfin.
Unwatched is great on ios.
Whoa, this is it! This is what I’m looking for
This is awesome, thank you!
it’s so pointless
? its pointless to watch videos without it being tracked to an account and with adds removed?
I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.
I am already paying for proton vpn for other reasons and connecting to other countries that don’t allow ads seems to work. It even works on NVIDIA media player and I might even assume Apple TV. I just lost my premium today so yeah
Edit. Just noticed this is a self hosted sub, I’ll just leave this in case someone needs the info but otherwise I’ll delete
What countries might that be?
Less developed countries who need their bandwidth more than you or countries at war… so not really a good idea after all.
Albania and Azerbaijan have worked for me.
I was going to recommend android apps until I saw iOS. I don’t know anyones that let you keep a local subscription like newpipe does without needing to sideload. So if there are I’d be interested.
