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A libre lightweight streaming front-end for Android.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect
Sounds like the changes you want should be possible to add to NewPipe.
There is no Newpipe on the Play store, it breaks the T&S of the play store.
Here is the official website for Newpipe https://newpipe.net/
There is no Newpipe on the Play store, it breaks the T&S of the play store.
Here is the official website for Newpipe https://newpipe.net/
[1] https://framagit.org/framasoft/peertube
Turn off recommendations, comments, autoplay etc. I only see exactly who I've subscribed to and nothing more.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
And libgen. And private trackers.
YouTube is largely shit tier mental junk food anyway.
On Android there's plenty of choice. NewPipe is a dream[1]. Firefox with uBlock Origin works well. There's Kiwi (Chromium) with uBlock Origin too.
NewPipe is one of my recently discovered favourites. It pretty much scrapes Youtube and strips the horrid ads. You don't get any of the recommendation rubbish either and is far better from a privacy and data tracking point of view. FOSS for Android devices.
If you are subscribed to enough good channels, you won't notice anything aside of suddenly having much more free time. And whenever you're bored, unlock recommendations for a while to learn about new channels (I do it once every few months).
[0] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
[1] https://vanced.app/ , beware of scam sites
[2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-video-player/id129434748...
[3] https://www.youtube.com/feed/history (on old YT layout)
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
No ads, no direct tracking [1], just videos.
[1] Google can still watch your device downloading videos of course...
RMS's concern with YouTube is that they use proprietary JavaScript and they use patented media formats. However, RMS has always made it clear that if you have the ability "at hand" to rip DVDs then purchasing a DVD is not unethical. Both of the pieces of software I mentioned allow you to avoid running proprietary software.
His other concern is that RMS wants people to publish things he appears in in a way that is much easier to access with only free software. The Internet Archive and CCC provide video hosting that is completely free software, with non-patented formats like VP9, and is easy to use. The idea is to make those forms of publishing more widely known about.
[1]: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl [2]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe