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Invidious: an alternative front-end that is open-source and privacy-respecting. Here are a list of open instances. If you are reasonably familiar with docker/self-hosting you can also host it yourself, but be aware it’s somewhat resource- and maintenance-heavy.
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yt-dlp: this is a nice command-line program that allows you to download YouTube videos by link; also works with Peertube links. For Windows/Mac users apparently the program is available as well, but please follow their instructions. If you also have mpv installed, you can call
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NewPipe: this app on F-droid.org allows you to watch YouTube videos (and Soundcloud/Bandcamp but somewhat glitchy) with an experience very much akin to the YouTube app itself.
Please feel free to share other alternatives.
Desktop : Freetube
Android : Revanced
I tried to patch youtube today again. Even patching a new apk of youtube. Still says i cant do it without root perms
Revanced is sometimes only available for rooted phones!
I have an unrooted phone and I’m using revanced
Can you tell me what phone you use? Old or new? It could be that i use a pixel phone too ;(
I have a Samsung Galaxy S9. It’s not really the newest phone out there. There might be issues with the youtube apk version that you’re trying to patch. On the Revanced Github it says that most patches are only available for version 18.19.35
Yeah i got that but i think pixel just simply does not allow that.
Considering you have to patch yourself the app with their tool and the tool doesn’t need root access, I’ve never had this problem.