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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Invidious and Piped fix this issue. You can use LibRedirect to automatically redirect all YouTube links to Invidious or Piped.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

there's no slowdowns on freetube either

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

FreeTube is great but I personally prefer a browser-based solution

[–] zingo 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah. Going with freetube desktop app (flatpak) on Linux.

No slowdown here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

UntrackMe is nice, but it's not required for YouTube link redirection on Android as LibreTube and NewPipe natively support opening YouTube links.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Great if you have those apps installed, but UntrackMe also does twitter -> nitter, reddit -> libreddit, and a few other services too

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

That's true and that's the reason I use UntrackMe.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes sense and improves privacy but they're not going to win on speed, not even on Firefox, unless you host a private instance or use a nearby-hosted one.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

By default, when using Invidious, your browser loads the video right from Google, you can proxy videos through the Invidious instance but it's disabled by default. Only Piped always proxies videos through the Piped server.