Seems like Piped and Invidious are both on their last legs. Public instances on both services are pretty iffy, they go down fairly often now. Freetube works well on desktop but no real way to sync subscriptions and watch history to a phone. Self-hosting Piped/Invidious might be the solution but I don’t know if it’s worth the upkeep when YouTube is actively fighting against it.

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    mpv 🤷 Don’t have to see ads anymore. The day I can’t watch it without seeing ads, is the day I stop using youtube.

    On the phone: NewPipe.

    Everytime I open youtube, I struggle to find something to watch. Most of the videos I watch are linked to from third-party sites.

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        1 year ago

        It can play individual videos or playlists with the help of yt-dlp or youtube-dl (I think the former is more active than the latter).

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      New pipe on the phone works pretty well. Better than YouTube ads. Although you can’t directly watch shorts without searching for them (as far as I know). I just watch those on Firefox with adblock.

      Would recommend though.