Now, as you may know by now youtube is blocking adblockers and forcing you to sit through twin 30-second unskippable ads most times you want to watch a video.
Now, to install freetube, you can install it from discover/gnome software for gui method or you could type this in your terminal: flatpak install flathub io.freetubeapp.FreeTube .(If you are on Silverblue or any immutable spin)
Using it for couple years already. Best YouTube “player” on Linux , no need for Google account or account at all to subscribe to channels. Recommended.
I like this type of software, but I always come in hand on how legal they are? I think I can promote it in the magazine, but I need to research a little bit more about legal stuff
I’d say if we are going FOSS way, we need to explore Peertube and related federated world.
I don’t know if anyone has resources to look into it now, but long-term it would be a better solution than trying to bypass restrictions while still using the Youtube as a primary media source.
It all goes back to who is going to maintain it, update it and moderate the content.
Technically we have cloud resources to host things, but we usually have issues with people who can commit to the long-term maintenance.
So maybe it is the conversation CommOps team needs to have, or maybe this is a cross-project collaboration opportunity so we can share the instance with, i don’t know, SUSE and Debian?
Does anyone else also have a 20 sec. delay before the Youtube overview is loading? When I click the link, I see the little pointer in the browser tab rotating counter-clockwise for about 20 sec. before it rotates clockwise and loads the page.
Could this be another sneaky way of Google to make you not use Youtube because of using an adblocker?
It could be a nice thing for the project, but I don’t see as a priority when it comes to spreading the word, as PeerTube is still really small and niche. If someone steps up to build it and maintain it, it could be great though.
For some reason Freetube also just works, while Grayjay on Android is constantly blocked, uses iOS fallback.
Using the Flatpak, it now detects Wayland and uses that. The PiP window does not overlay the others, but now it displays as a separate Wayland window and in KDE I can change it to “always on top”.
I just download my videos when for some reason it is not blocked, and watch them later.
This worked so well… that I now have 170 videos, not on a “watch later” but downloaded on my phone XDDD
You asked, we listened! I worked with Noah Chelliah and Michael Brazda and got Fedora a channel setup on the Linux Rocks instance! Go give it a follow. I’ll be uploading a podcast-a-day until we’ve got our entire library uploaded!
, no need for Google account or account at all to subscribe to channels. Recommended.