I've heard of piped due to the piped-link bot, but I am curious about others.

  • nickiam2@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    GrayJay just came out into the testing phase. It not only supportsYouTubee but also Nebula, Odysee, Twitch, PeerTube and a few others with more to come. Works great so far. grayjay.app. Built by Futo, a nonprofit company which Louis Rossmann works for. His video here

  • rush@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Web

    For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)

    NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.

    Android

    On Android, there's NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.

    NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you'll need to select some piped instance with it.

    iOS

    On iOS, there's the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).

    NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for "instances" in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks to watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.

    Desktop

    On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).

    NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.

  • JakenVeina@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    SmartTube is excellent on our NVidia Shield. Not sure what other platforms it works on.

    • Dem Bosain@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Seconding SmartTube on android TV. No ads, can automatically skip all sorts of content in videos (spoken ads, self-promotion, introduction segments, etc. etc. etc.) I dread the day it stops working.

  • guts@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Best overall SmartTube for Android TV and NewPipe with SponsorBlock for Android.

  • plumbercraic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Been using revanced for a while - had no idea there were this many alternatives. I like revanced though, especially with stube on Google tv.

  • gim@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Invidious. If you look up invidious instances you can find plenty of them and choose one that’s in your country so it’s nice and fast. Sometimes they take an extra second to load but there are no ads so it’s worth it

  • neosheo@discuss.tchncs.de
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    1 year ago

    On android i like newpipe + sponsorblock and clipious. Id use clipious all the time but it sometimes doesnt play and then i fall back on newpipe. Newpipe has downloading too.

    I dont use youtube much on desktop but when i do i use invidious

    Oh and i use smartubenext on android tv