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These are alternatives to hosting, not viewing. Hard to switch platforms if the people making videos I want to watch are not on the new platform.
by deadbunny 5y ago
These are alternatives to hosting, not viewing. Hard to switch platforms if the people making videos I want to watch are not on the new platform.
- bogwog 5y agoInvidious lets you watch youtube videos without using Youtube. It even lets you subscribe to channels, and import your subscriptions from Youtube. Theres an app for Android and Win/Mac/Linux called Freetube that uses Invidious. There are a lot of free Invidious instances out there. You can also self host one if you want. Use it! And if you can, donate to one of the public Invidious instances.
- btdmaster 5y agompv combined with yt-dlp works quite nicely too, just paste the URL as an argument to mpv and it handles downloading on its own. Primary issue is that yt-dlp is highly sensitive to shadow API changes so rolling release is needed for it to be useful, though this can still be done with custom repositories on distros outside of e.g. Arch.