cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/11652690
Hello, Lemmies,
If you're as addicted to YouTube as I am, you'll understand the countless hours we've all spent on the platform. Nowadays, YouTube has transformed into something quite different, with features that serve the mighty Google but may not be exactly what we're looking for. I've got just the thing for you - YouTube Tools/Extension!!
Android:
ReVanced - It's provides additional features and customization options via patches. (There are many tutorials available for building an custom APK)
ReVanced Extended - It's the same as OG ReVanced, but it provides additional extra patches.
NewPipe - The lightweight YouTube experience for Android
NewPipe Extended - A fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and Return YouTube Dislike functionality.
iOS:
uYou+ - uYou+ is a modified version of uYou with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!
uYou+ Extra - It's the same as uYou+, but it provides additional extra features.
YouTube Reborn - It's LillieH1000’s YouTube Reborn but, this fork does some improvements.
YouTube Reborn Plus - LillieH1000’s YouTube Reborn but with even more features!
Desktop/PC:
- FreeTube - FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately.
YT Frontend:
Invidious - Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.
Piped Video - An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.
Libretube - An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.
This is a highly popular YouTube frontend, but there's even more to discover here LibRedirect also it's a web extension that redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, and other websites to alternative privacy friendly frontends.
Extensions:
- uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker.
Currently, there's an annoying popup problem, but don't worry, you can resolve it with these simple steps.[1], [2], also checkout uBlock subreddit.
Return YouTube Dislike -It's an open-source extension that returns the YouTube dislike count.
SponsorBlock - Easily skip YouTube video sponsors. When you visit a YouTube video, the extension will check the database for reported sponsors and automatically skip known sponsors. You can also report sponsors in videos.
Enhancer for YouTube - Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience! Chrome Web Store | Edge Add-ons
BlockTube - It allows you to block specific channels and videos that you don't wish to see or get recommended with. Chrome Web Store | Firefox Add-ons
DeArrow - DeArrow is an open source browser extension for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails on YouTube. The goal is to make titles accurate and reduce sensationalism. No more arrows, ridiculous faces, and no more clickbait.
Unhook - Hide YouTube related videos, comments, shorts tab, suggestions wall, homepage recommendations, trending, and other distractions.
RemoveAdblockThing - Removes The "Ad blocker are not allowed on Youtube"
Extra:
PocketTube - Youtube Subscription Manager, The best way to group your subscriptions.
YouT-ube - Add a - after the t in youtube, it's redirect to embed video type format to bypass YouTube's non-skippable ads.
Video Bypass - Watch YouTube videos locally by clicking a button.
Besides these, there are plenty more tools/extensions and user scripts on Greasy Fork and Tampermonkey. If you discover any new and useful ones, feel free to drop a comment.
Thanks for reading.
Shutout to my dear friend youtube-dl. Perfect tool if you want to download videos, especially if downloading large amounts of videos at once. It can take full playlists or channels or just txt file with list of videos
Easily skip YouTube video sponsors
Not just sponsors.
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This is from the revanced app. I think there's even more categories in the browser extension.
I would add SmartTube for Android TV.
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
Thanks! I keep seeing YT alternatives but nothing for Android TV, seems like an obvious platform.
I use vinegar on MacOs as well. Just yesterday started getting popups on YT about adblockers. Maybe I need to update….
Grayjay from Louis Rossman's company is really good - you can even log in with youtube etc. It looks amazing. It looks like a Tachiyomi for Video and Livestreaming!!! You can add other sources.
It's nice, but I wish it had sponsorblock support, though I'm not sure if it's something they'll add.
The main difference is whether they can be used with an account or not
There's also TubeArchivist which is sort of like a self hosted YouTube. It can pull videos automatically from channels you subscribe to and download them through yt-dlp and has some organisational capabilities too
Thank you for the extensions list, (especially RemoveAdblockThing) but did you have to call us lemmies?
Been meaning to look into Libretube for a while now, thanks for the links
I think uBO on Firefox is enough, but you need to remove other extensions as they might block thing on youtube, thus being detected.