[HN Gopher] FreeTube - A Private YouTube Client
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FreeTube - A Private YouTube Client
Author : night-rider
Score : 177 points
Date : 2022-11-27 20:01 UTC (8 hours ago)
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(TXT) w3m dump (freetubeapp.io)
| the_third_wave wrote:
| I'm using a private [1] Invidious [2] instance on all platforms
| to gain access to Youtube content without feeding the beast more
| than needed. The advantage of something like Invidious is that it
| allows you to access subscriptions anywhere you can access the
| 'net instead of just on those platforms where you installed
| something like Freetube or Newpipe or any of the other
| alternative clients.
|
| [1] private for now since my instance ended up being very popular
| in Japan for some reason, this being rather odd given that I live
| in Sweden. I'll keep it private for a few months and open it up
| again to see whether traffic remains within reasonable bounds.
|
| [2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
| lrvick wrote:
| Freetube has built-in support to proxy all content via
| Invidious.
| ramonezy wrote:
| I think as developers we have to be careful that we don't
| overstep logical boundaries. Youtube provides a free service that
| hosts immense volumes of video and creates an ecosystem allowing
| creators to earn a living. It's selfish to use the services of
| YouTube while removing their main source of revenue. If you have
| a problem with YouTube's tracking, simply don't use it
| Waterluvian wrote:
| This is how I feel about all the bold circumvention of
| paywalls. It's a legally fuzzy area in some cases, but to me at
| least, it is basically people saying, "here, let me help you
| steal!"
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| YouTube could kill all of this by simply forcing a login to
| watch anything but they won't because they're cowards.
| fijiaarone wrote:
| That's rich coming from someone defending a site that existed
| for a decade purely on helping people to steal copyrighted
| content until they had a monopoly and were able to force
| copyright holders to license it to them.
| Dylan16807 wrote:
| It's not usually very fuzzy. If a site wants a hard paywall,
| they can set that up easily. But few sites want that.
| lrvick wrote:
| When you consume ads, tracking supported content, and money-
| sorted content targeting, you are voting that it is okay to
| give anyone the ability to modify your behavior, and of
| others in your network and household.
|
| People are told their only options are to consent to
| corporate behavior modification or be effectively ejected
| from modern society.
|
| That is a bullshit choice and everyone should feel no guilt
| for opting to consume content anonymously. In fact many
| -need- to do this to protect themselves from politicians who
| are unfriendly to basic human rights.
| nonrandomstring wrote:
| > It's selfish to use the services of YouTube while removing
| their main source of revenue.
|
| The entire edifice of Capitalism, which we celebrate, is built
| on selfishness. And yet you use the word here as if it were a
| bad thing. I am confused :)
|
| > If you have a problem with YouTube's tracking, simply don't
| use it
|
| Why "simply" avoid a problem when with some effort you can
| improve it? In this case optimising the service to make it free
| from ads and tracking appears to be an improvement.
| _carbyau_ wrote:
| The problem here is "network effect" leverage on society.
|
| When you choose not to use Youtube, you are choosing to not be
| a part of a large part of society. This is isolating. Whether
| that isolation matters to the individual in question is highly
| variable.
|
| You might be able to easily forego it. But a kid - ostensibly
| uninformed, not able to reason well enough and "not able to
| consent" - who's teacher sets an assignment to write about a
| youtube video has an overwhelming influence to "simply do it".
|
| Should large parts of society including institutions know
| better and do better? Sure. But in practice they don't.
| InCityDreams wrote:
| >When you choose not to use Youtube, you are choosing to not
| be a part of a large part of society.
|
| How would using freetube solve this problem?
| sokoloff wrote:
| It lets you watch the content otherwise available on
| YouTube without all the ads and tracking that comes with
| using the YouTube site or app.
| throwaway0x7E6 wrote:
| lol, lmao even
| makeitdouble wrote:
| This arguments stands in a fully rational market with fair
| competition guaranteed by a controlling entity.
|
| Youtube doesn't have any competition at its scale, not using it
| isn't a rational choice. Even school assignments will have
| YouTube links to watch. I think we're at the point where your
| statement sounds like a "if you don't like the Standard Oil
| company just don't buy their oil" rehash.
| lrvick wrote:
| If there was a pay to anonymously support Youtube creators
| directly with micropayments using only open source privacy
| respecting software like LBRY does, I would use it.
|
| Sadly YouTube has monopolized a lot of content, has mandatory
| tracking, and also censors and suppresses things and uses
| algorithms to put people in maximally profitable filter bubbles
| regardless of mental health.
|
| Ideally more creators will realize they can put censorship-free
| tracking-free content on alternative services that give them
| direct profits.
|
| Until then I use Freetube and Invidious exclusively to opt out
| of tracking nonsense and avoid wasting my valuable time
| watching ads.
|
| We should all starve adtech companies of revenue so creators
| are incentivized to learn how to monetize in a way that
| respects users rights and privacy.
| schmichael wrote:
| You can pay for ad free YouTube by paying for YouTube
| Premium. No annoying micropayments. All the content with none
| of the ads.
|
| It does not satisfy your anonymous requirement but very
| little does. Most content creators appreciate (directly or
| indirectly) the features a non anonymous platform provides.
| Brian_K_White wrote:
| Incorrect. I have premium and I still get all kinds of ads,
| in the content itself, and of course premium means a login
| which means not anonymous and absolutely "personalized"
| content.
| schmichael wrote:
| If the content itself includes paid promotion then (a)
| it's not individualized, and (b) the platform you view it
| on (YouTube, FreeTube, Blu-ray, or VHS) doesn't matter...
| ...so I don't think paid promotions from the content
| creators themselves are relevant to the discussion? Your
| only option is manually skipping the promotional content
| which is usually really trivial to do.
|
| I have YouTube Premium and don't see any ads by
| Google/YouTube. I'm not a heavy YouTube viewer though so
| it's possible I'm missing something.
|
| Edit: just discovered sponsorblock and wooow am I
| impressed at the lengths some folks will go to skip ads.
| TIL
| lrvick wrote:
| YouTube premium requires I have a Google account, and
| consent to Google ToS which includes them tracking my
| behavior and using it to sell changes in my behavior as a
| service to the highest bidder.
|
| Youtube Premium is not acceptable. I can use cash to buy a
| book or a movie at a store and not have to reveal anything
| about myself in the process. No targeting, no having my
| personal data and behavior collected in centralized systems
| and sold forever.
|
| The only acceptable model I have seen is what LBRY does,
| where I can have an anonymous account and top up a wallet
| of tokens which are used to support creators with
| microtransactions. No tracking, no ads, but creators get
| paid.
| jsnell wrote:
| You can opt out of ad personalization:
| https://myadcenter.google.com/
|
| But I get it, why pay for the content or the service when
| you can just take it for free?
| judge2020 wrote:
| > which includes them tracking my behavior and using it
| to sell changes in my behavior as a service to the
| highest bidder.
|
| You can use Ad Block while using YT Premium.
| Brian_K_White wrote:
| no adblock blocks in-content ads, and if we are talking
| technicalities and theory anyway, surely it violates the
| tos. I'm not sure what this suggestion even meant to
| accomplish now that I think about it.
| joecool1029 wrote:
| >no adblock blocks in-content ads
|
| Ever heard of SponsorBlock?
| ahelwer wrote:
| This sounds plausible enough until you examine it and realize
| you're turning viewing ads into some kind of moral duty.
|
| "Have you witnessed the requisite quantity of behavior-
| modifying media today, Citizen? Remember, we all have to do our
| part. I see you only internalized five minutes' worth
| yesterday. This is below target. Your beliefs and desires have
| not been sufficiently altered to meet corporate goals. We
| require greater acquiescence."
|
| If a company wants to paywall something then they can do that.
| Maybe I'll pay for it. Advertising shits in your head. I don't
| accept the modification of my mind as an acceptable form of
| payment.
|
| "So don't use it"
|
| No. What are you going to do about it? Tell me I'm immoral?
| lrvick wrote:
| What is immoral is people being told to either give up all
| privacy or stop using the internet.
|
| A true third choice does not exist, so we are left with no
| choice but to create one. Strip the ads and remove the
| trackers until alternatives like anonymous micro-transactions
| are implemented.
|
| This needs to go down like DRM. When enough people voted no
| to DRM by obtaining music via alternative channels, music
| sales portals started dropped DRM letting people have
| unrestricted copies of what they paid for.
| throwaway0x7E6 wrote:
| based
| BurungHantu wrote:
| More YouTube alternatives and privacy frontends:
|
| - https://www.privacytools.io/youtube-alternatives/
|
| - https://www.privacytools.io/privacy-frontends/
| greenpizza13 wrote:
| Why would people want this?
|
| YouTube creators make their money with ads, so this takes money
| out of their pockets, too.
| BLKNSLVR wrote:
| Save time, save bandwidth, save privacy, minimise support for
| Google.
|
| I'm intentionally not addressing the advertising revenue issue
| as that becomes subjective very quickly, just attempting to
| answer your question through my lens.
| illuminerdy wrote:
| I've been using FreeTube for quite a while now. It's great for
| subscribing to channels that you don't necessarily want to infect
| your regular YouTube feed and recommendations.
| europeanguy wrote:
| Why not just RSS? Don't get me wrong, I hate Google's monopoly
| as much as anyone else, but in this specific case I don't see
| the benefit of using some app for the subscriptions, vs rss
| ekianjo wrote:
| It goes beyond just feeds
| MattDemers wrote:
| Just to add, Freetube has support for comments, timestamp
| segments, and other things that goes beyond RSS.
| 2-718-281-828 wrote:
| i use it every day and really like it. youtube gets almost every
| aspect of ui and ux wrong. it's not even funny considering how
| central it is to multimedia content.
| sneak wrote:
| It says Private right in the name, but on launch it immediately
| phones home to GitHub and some VPSes.
| ekianjo wrote:
| Private from youtube as in you do not need a Google account
| googlryas wrote:
| YouTube.com doesn't require an account either. What exactly
| is this buying us that you don't get from just opening the
| site in incognito mode?
| agluszak wrote:
| But without account on youtube.com you cannot subscribe to
| channels. With FreeTube you can. And also it is open-
| source[1]
|
| [1] - https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
| fijiaarone wrote:
| Once upon a time browsers had a way to bookmark web pages
| and nobody knew it but you.
| bogwog wrote:
| Browser bookmarks != Youtube subscriptions
| aliqot wrote:
| all youtube channels can be added as RSS feeds natively.
| [deleted]
| wolfskaempf wrote:
| You can still subscribe to channels and create playlists.
| All of this is stored locally without an account.
| s3p wrote:
| I see this is based on Electron. Do you have any plans to release
| a progressive web app? That would be a nice addition to
| win/mac/linux apps
| n4bz0r wrote:
| People here talking about how they don't want YouTube to make a
| profile of their preferences, and here I am, wishing YouTube had
| a _better_ profile of my preferences.
|
| Lately, there is almost no new videos in my recommendation feed.
| It's mostly either the things I've already watched or new videos
| from the channels I'm already subscribed to. It really feels like
| I've exhausted the internet at some point. This can't possibly be
| true now, can it? :')
|
| Where do I opt-in for _more_ tracking?
| mtlmtlmtlmtl wrote:
| I found that disabling autoplay helped with this. I regularly
| watch youtube while getting to sleep. It would end up
| autoplaying previously seen videos all night, which I guess
| trained it to think I loved rewatching the same videos over and
| over.
| Blue111 wrote:
| ruminator1 wrote:
| The goal of the YouTube algorithm is not to give you great
| videos but keep you mildly entertained for long periods of
| time.
|
| In my experience the 'suggested videos' next to the video
| you're watching is more than good enough to get recs.
|
| I use newpipe and put all the videos I like in a playlist. So
| everytime I want new videos I just scroll through the list,
| click on a video and just try something from suggested videos.
| charcircuit wrote:
| Being shown great videos that are relevant to you is
| correlated with increased time on the platform and
| satisfaction which are some of the metrics YouTube cares
| about.
|
| >the 'suggested videos' next to the video you're watching is
| more than good enough to get recs.
|
| Which is also an algorithmic feed which optimizes for the
| same metrics as the home page.
| rodgerd wrote:
| There is _a lot_ of effort that goes into gaming the algo.
| Either that or YouTube 's devs are completely incompetent.
| Either would explain why watching Stewart Lee videos gets me
| Jordan Peterson recommendations, but I tend toward the former
| rather than the latter.
| echelon wrote:
| Precisely this.
|
| I go to YouTube, see a whole lot of _nothing_ , and then I
| promptly leave. It's an interest desert.
|
| I always read and hear of YouTube being lauded for its
| recommendations, but to me it has always been the _weakest_
| video content site and social network. It doesn 't do either
| job particularly well, at least not in a way that engages me
| for long.
|
| I like science and geopolitical content, but the typical
| YouTuber treatment tends to pale in comparison to stuff you'd
| read.
|
| From my perspective, HBO and TikTok win long and short form
| video respectively, whereas Twitter, HN, and Reddit win 1:n and
| n:m social.
| JZL003 wrote:
| what geopolitical and science do you read/follow? I can find
| pretty alright science (either very high level or just papers
| at some point, some industry niche websites strike a better
| balance), but not that many geopolitical sites I feel good
| about
| lvass wrote:
| Is boob tube 2.0 really better than the original yet? It
| seemingly can't even stop showing bizarre things to children,
| recommending good content seems very far away. It's probably
| not even their business interest if you adblock.
| TylerE wrote:
| I've had a similar experience, and it's rather recent.. last
| month or so.
| MR4D wrote:
| I think you might not be understanding the context of the
| argument.
|
| Google has tons of information on you - way more than it needs,
| and yet it still doesn't get recommendations as good as we
| expect (as you rightly point out).
|
| So the issue is that it has tons of extra data than they need
| because it * doesn't make their recommendation any better.*
|
| Gathering data for the sake of gathering data in todays world
| of information privacy and hackers, leaks, etc. And that is
| what they are doing.
|
| In my opinion (sample size of 1), YouTube is incredibly
| simplistic in its recommendations. I find it very hard to
| believe that they couldn't achieve the same quality with much
| less info on me.
|
| For instance, my IP changes when I travel, but I'm an American
| who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in showing me local
| ads in different languages when I'm in foreign countries,
| despite having my home address (verified with my credit card no
| less!!!) That's just laughable.
| mhss wrote:
| > Google has tons of information on you
|
| Do you have any good sources about this? what do we know for
| sure Google know and track about us? I work for Google now,
| but speak for myself here. In my time here (not much, less
| than a year still) I've seen a huge focus on privacy and not
| storing user data. Then again, I don't work on ads. However,
| even before working at Google I was surprised that given my
| liberal sharing of information on the internet, ad targeting
| did not seem particularly more informed for me than "middle
| aged male living in Canada" -\\_(tsu)_/-.
| bogwog wrote:
| > For instance, my IP changes when I travel, but I'm an
| American who speaks English, and yet YouTube insists in
| showing me local ads in different languages when I'm in
| foreign countries, despite having my home address (verified
| with my credit card no less!!!) That's just laughable.
|
| I bet those advertisers that are wasting money on ads that
| you don't understand aren't laughing
| nwienert wrote:
| For years YouTubes top hero banner purposely loaded quite a
| bit later than the rest of the page.
|
| I never noticed it, until I moved to Spain for a while. Our
| place had slow internet, and I watched my roommates hit the
| ad multiple times a day on accident because it loaded right
| into where the search box was exactly as you'd naturally
| click there.
| Brian_K_White wrote:
| I have seen that kind of thing a few different places and
| I just plain decline to believe that it isn't done with
| knowledge.
|
| Active items that are already clickable that change
| location as a page loads drive me nuts, but these
| particularly convenient examples add another dimension to
| that.
| FeistySkink wrote:
| My banking app does that when doing a transfer, i.e new
| field appear depending on a receiver. It catches me off-
| guard every single time. Infuriating.
| Brian_K_White wrote:
| hah! 2 seconds later this is in my feed
|
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33765399
| guestbest wrote:
| The tracking isn't for a better user experience for you but for
| better targeting for companies
| mrleinad wrote:
| Well, that's not working either
| makeitdouble wrote:
| As it is a new development (been seeing the same thing happen
| since a few months ago, and lot of people seem to have the
| complaint), I'd assume YouTube is exactly taking account all
| the data it has on its users, and are applying what they see as
| the best strategy for their bottom line.
|
| I wouldn't expect more data or better profiling to bridge that
| gap.
| verisimi wrote:
| Where oh where can I get a body cavity search?! Won't anybody
| tell me?
| charcircuit wrote:
| It's easier and better to just make a new YouTube account or use
| incognito mode. The only benefit I see from FreeTube is no ads.
| This can be replicated by just using an adblocker.
|
| Having watch history and other data tied to an account is more
| convenient since you can access it anywhere and YouTube can
| recommend videos for you to watch which is a killer feature that
| FreeTube lacks.
| ekianjo wrote:
| Nope. No ads as in no sponsor ads either. You cant replicate
| that with an adblocker. Also it prevents youtube from making a
| profile out of what you consume.
| pessimizer wrote:
| > No ads as in no sponsor ads either. You cant replicate that
| with an adblocker.
|
| https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
|
| https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sponsorblock-
| for-y...
| ekianjo wrote:
| That's not your typical adblocker. That's an extra one that
| you have to trust to give access to all of your website
| data, on top of that. Freetube uses the API, I prefer that
| approach to trusting random extensions that get automatic
| updates.
| timbit42 wrote:
| Does it support SponsorBlock?
| femboy wrote:
| Yes.
| mardifoufs wrote:
| Can't believe your name wasn't taken before two weeks ago!
| system2 wrote:
| Unlike reddit, the nicknames are not too vulgar. That must
| be the reason why. You can find many others not taken.
| soheil wrote:
| How is this any different than running youtube in a Firefox
| container? I feel like it's a lot of reinventing the wheel if you
| have to do things like Sponsorblock, Adblock, etc. all over again
| instead of just relying on your current browser setup.
| lrvick wrote:
| You can route all traffic through community invidious instances
| so Google can not even track what content is consumed by your
| IP.
|
| It also automatically skips all ads, even sponsor segments in
| videos.
|
| You also avoid needing to have a Google account to keep up with
| subscriptions, and you avoid content suppression as the
| sponsor-prioritized advertiser-friendly algorithms are turned
| off.
| judge2020 wrote:
| > so Google can not even track what content is consumed by
| your IP.
|
| "Google uses IPs to track you" has been theorized since 2010
| or maybe even before, but I've never seen any study or
| evidence that it actually does so. So, so much of the
| internet is built on NAT, shared IP space, and short-lived IP
| addresses that it really doesn't seem like there is any ROI
| in having engineers keep their IP correlation tech in service
| and tracking its efficacy.
| cuttysnark wrote:
| IP addresses are frequently kept and stored to show users
| their active sessions. Are you sincerely doubting that a
| company like Google doesn't or can't use this information
| in other ways that support their core business? You don't
| have to call it "tracking", but I can't think of a better
| name.
| emaro wrote:
| You don't have to execute YouTubes javascript to watch videos.
| lakomen wrote:
| We need one to replace vanced on Android and Android TV. We have
| ad blockers for browsers on the desktop.
| Bilal_io wrote:
| Revanced has been in development since Vanced stopped
| development.
|
| Their client takes a different approach, and it not only
| patches YouTube clients, but also Twitter, TikTok, Spotify and
| Twitch to name a few.
| SkyPuncher wrote:
| S Tube is fantastic on AndroidTV.
| poulpy123 wrote:
| Looks nice. Can it import/export subscription with newpipe ?
| illuminerdy wrote:
| Yes, but when I tried, it was kind buggy. May have improved
| since then.
| ekianjo wrote:
| yes they have compatible json exports
| 3np wrote:
| Looks like it:
| https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/pull/2604
| arbol wrote:
| Now we just need an Android version of this!
| ekianjo wrote:
| Its called Newpipe
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| I love NewPipe and use it heavily on my phone and Shield TV.
|
| https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
| capex wrote:
| My biggest gripe with Youtube right now is how they've left
| channel subscription just as a long list. I have hundreds of
| subscriptions, and they are clearly around a few of my
| interests...
| causi wrote:
| I need to get around to figuring out how to build ReVanced before
| Youtube Vanced stops working.
| Zuiii wrote:
| One and only one question:
|
| Can it limit video search to only the channels in my subscription
| list?
|
| Youtube seems to have had this feature at one point but it was
| removed. The only option is to search each channel specifically
| (a tedious task if you hundreds of channel subscriptions).
|
| If you can provide this incredibly useful but imposible-to-do-
| manually functionality (search all subscriptions), you'll have a
| UVP that will make people like me immediately switch.
| causi wrote:
| If you've seen the video before you could search your view
| history.
| walrus01 wrote:
| I would encourage anybody interested in this sort of thing to
| search for yt-dlp, which is a fork and continuation of the
| YouTube-dl project.
|
| CLI tool to download and mirror YouTube videos and audio to local
| disk.
| 2OEH8eoCRo0 wrote:
| You can even stream twitch.
|
| For example, I've used:
|
| $ yt-dlp -o - <twitch channel> | vlc -
| ipaddr wrote:
| Can it save video content through browser addons or build in
| functionity?
| ekianjo wrote:
| it uses yt_dlp under the hood to save video afair
| ajvs wrote:
| Built in but I don't find it reliable, I instead opt for yt-
| dlp.
| sourcecodeplz wrote:
| I don't mind Youtube making a profile of me and recommending
| similar things. But then again I use youtube to watch channels
| I'm subscribed to and maybe once a week I watch the recommended
| stuff.
| colinsane wrote:
| i just find the youtube login process terrible. my browser
| doesn't persist cookies, so i have to re-login every day. not
| problematic for most sites that use a single login form (like
| HN) and play nice with a password manager.
|
| but for Youtube its:
|
| 1. go to login page.
|
| 2. enter username, hit enter.
|
| 3. enter password, hit enter.
|
| 4. at the 2FA page hunt for the "other method" option and click
| it.
|
| 5. select "authenticate with Google Authenticator" (i.e. OTP).
|
| 6. enter TOTP code, hit enter
|
| 7. select either "use this method in the future" or "no" --
| they don't take effect because no cookies.
|
| sure, it's self-inflicted on behalf of me not persisting
| cookies. but a 7 step login process? get real.
|
| 3rd party clients like this solve that. in theory i could also
| whitelist youtube cookies to be specifically persisted, but
| figuring out how to do that would be a lot more troublesome
| than just using a 3rd party client.
| InCityDreams wrote:
| My cookies dont persist. I do steps 1, 2, and 3 - almost
| daily. And that, to me, is a pain. As you say, "self-
| inflicted" - i can't help but think of the guy-on-the
| bicycle-meme. No snark intended, but your steps 4-7 (2fa+)
| seem remarkably...unnecessary for youtube?
| ThePowerOfFuet wrote:
| It's not just YouTube; they are signing into their Google
| Account.
| colinsane wrote:
| yeah, if Youtube wasn't connected to my old gmail account
| which secures way too much of my life, i wouldn't use
| 2FA. now that you point it out i should rather create a
| separate account specifically for Youtube, which wouldn't
| need 2FA.
| jayshua wrote:
| I had the same pain until I started using Firefox containers.
| Now I can persist cookies for just YouTube without keeping
| them for any other sites or making the Google cookies
| available to Google when I'm browsing other sites using the
| non-youtube container.
| 31337Logic wrote:
| MattDemers wrote:
| I love Freetube, and try to contribute to people directly if I'm
| going to use Freetube.
|
| It'll truly become killer when I can save multiple playlists,
| like I can on Newpipe. Sadly right now you're stuck with one
| playlist of "Favourites", and then copy-pasting a playlist link
| from YouTube to queue things up.
| mirkules wrote:
| I use Musi on iOS. Ability to play in the background, save
| playlists locally, no YouTube ads (just ads on screen in the app
| while music plays in the background, for non-paid versions), and
| no link to your YouTube account.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/musi-simple-music-streaming/id...
| elashri wrote:
| The app is tracking location and user information
| comprev wrote:
| I've looked in iOS settings and can't see anything other than
| mobile data on/off and Siri?
| elashri wrote:
| Apps now require to report what they collect and what
| tracking they are using. This information is available on
| app store page of the app.
| varenc wrote:
| I see that in the app privacy report, but it doesn't ask
| for location permission. Not really sure what to think.
| Perhaps it's just tracking/logging your IP's geo location
| and that alone is enough to require disclosure?
| squarefoot wrote:
| Is there something similar built as Kodi addon? I made heavy use
| of its YT addon in the past, then a few years ago Google revoked
| their free API keys so that anyone wanting to watch YouTube
| videos had to login using their personal API key (which I don't
| have and don't plan to get) with all privacy implications. I can
| watch videos on a PC, so why do I have to give my credentials to
| do the same on Kodi? In both early 2021 and early 2022 I spent
| hours in bed every day because of severe health issues and being
| able to watch my favorite channels would have helped a lot to
| kill that time.
| mongol wrote:
| The Kodi Youtube addon can play videos without API key. On
| Android you can share a Youtube URL to the Yatse remote control
| app and it will play on Kodi
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