anticurrent

I know they are doing their best to keep up with yt shenanigans. but they sometimes make decisions that hurt the user experience. like removing the reload option from the video page. its incomprehensible why the removed a feature that probably didn’t interfere with the rest of the software performance

ublock origin only blocks ads.

But if you want a bit of privacy it can’t stop youtube from collecting your data and keeping you in a feedloop bubble.

With these types of clients yt can’t track you. and everytime i reload the app it’s like I am new user to them they don’t have all my browsing history. plus you can subscribe to channel without logging into yoututbe

didn’t know they made a desktop version. will try out thanks!

They removed Ctrl*r from video pages since around April

Yes. by clicking ‘r’ you were able to reload the video page. but it was remove around April, and it only works on the search page.

They cited something unconvincing I don’t remember why exactly but they are blocking all discussions about it since.

My dad listens to AI generated stories. I still don’t know if he realizes they are Fictional AI stories, or if this is his way of killing time by this instead of listening to audio books. I guess audiobooks take commitment

It has already changed a lot of things in my life to the worst. that I am scared what it would look like once It changes ‘Everything’

Will try that, thanks!

I wouldn’t have thought of that but it is too cumbersome of a workaround, and running and android vm makes my laptop run hot

Frustrated with Freetube, what do you use on desktop

Basically Most videos don’t load on first try for me on Freetube. so I have to go back and forth to reload the video hoping this time it will load? they have removed the reload button, and the team are just closing issues on GitHub that demand reinstating the reload button. Plus comments have stopping loading as well.

Invidious doesn’t work half of the times. and piped is dead.

What do you recommend using on desktop. or is paying for youtube Red the only option left?

Ten years too late.

This could have had a far greater impact when whatsapp exodus or controversy happend in 2021. I bet they have reached a stall in the number of new accounts and donations are drying out.

I have also read rumors about them thinking about tying this to a one time payment to prevent bot registration