Howdy folks,
I found this: https://newpipe.schabi.org/
It is an android youtube frontend that does not use any google/youtube apis, and its pretty cool. It can be found on the f-droid market: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/
I was wondering if there was a simple youtube fronend for linux, if anyone knows?
Do you mean just a player or also the browsing part.
As a player you can use mpv, for the browsing part I’m not sure. As a browsing front-end I don’t know of anything, since it would need an account login to browser “your” stuff anyway.
Google gives me this:
Yeah, looking for a stand-alone frontend with browsing
You can also look through here:
There’s some suggestions though I don’t know how well they work.
Is it not easier just to use one dedicated brower just for YT or Google sites?
If this is about the uBlock Origin errors, yeah, they aren’t going to fix that anytime soon. None of the devs can consistently reproduce the error, it’s been that way for 2+ weeks with no solution in sight.
invidio[dot]us is YouTube with a completely different frontend. If you roll your own server of that (source is on Github) and just use it for yourself, that could work.
This also calls for a Qt frontend for Newpipe. An official Qt port of Newpipe would be very handy. Someone make this!
I’m using Firefox containers for Google like the way Firefox treats Facebook out of the box.
As for a front end for YouTube I have used MiniTube on Linux.
Minitube is closed source, and is shareware on Windows and MacOS. Be very weary, it’s not an Open Source app.
Newpipe though is open source and fully self contained with no browser elements. Invidious is also used in FreeTube, and is also the core of straw-viewer, the fork of youtube-viewer. Unfortunately too many requests to YT from Invidious will cause API failures once in a while.