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Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube (www.popsci.com)
submitted 2 years ago* by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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I'm using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.

And the best part is no ads whatsoever.

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[–] 113 points 2 years ago (4 children)

i constantly gotta swap invidious instances because youtube is being relentless in their war against invidious.

but the ui is awesome and I use it every day.

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  • [–] 45 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    apparently freetube automatically uses a new invidious instance every time it starts up.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    How do I go about doing that (finding a good one and setting it up)? Its been a month that either the video loads or it doesn't and when it does work it is extremely slow to the point I can't watch on 1080p.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    honestly I keep a tab open with the list of invidious instances open. because every day I usually have to change the instance. or swap it around.

    invidious is fighting youtube very hard, but youtube is fighting back. so its difficult to keep up with.

    i would keep an eye on the invidious instances list. and change to a different one if need be.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Thanks for the reply! Just went through the whole list and none of the instances worked for me. I always get: "[invidious ](SyntaxError: Unexpected end of JSON input)". Googling the error led me to https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/5506 ← There someone posted an unlisted API that works. It seems non official since it is not listed on https://api.invidious.io/ ... is that safe to use? Thanks in advance

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