I wish we had some sort of way to copy videos from YT to PeerTube on some sort of on-demand way.

Like tell PeerTube the video you want, wait a few minutes, and then its available for everyone. Then it auto deletes after X days if it has had 0 views.

Edit: oh man, you could even have a Lemmy bot do this automatically when it sees a link to a YouTube video.

Freetube and GrayJay

At this point we should just start torrenting YouTube. Like fuck YouTube.

Close the door, turn off the lights, wear earbuds, pull a duvet over your head. Works every time. Might look a bit suspicious, but at least it's private.

Seriously though, it's getting pretty bad. I'm currently shifting my video watching habits away from YT. I have a feeling that sooner rather than later I may have to quit YT completely.

There are several way, honestly. For Android, there's NewPipe. The app itself fetches the YouTube data. For PC, there are similar applications that do the same such FreeTube. Those are the solutions I recommend.

If you're one of those, you can also host your own Invidious and/or Piped instances. But I like NewPipe and FeeTube better.

Just firefox with ublock origin.

i just search it on dukdukgo and use their viewer

I host my own invidious

You can still use yt-dlp with most of the invidious instances that are still up, but not displaying the video for some reason. Just copy the URL and use it with yt-dlp from the command line. All still works, sponsor block and all.

On my android phone I use either invidious with seal(yt-dlp wrapper app) or tubular (fork of newpipe with sponsor block).

Freetube and Grayjay. Grayjay has a desktop app now.

I download the videos I want to watch with yt-dlp. This applies to audio as well. I then add the videos to my Jellyfin server to watch them on the TV.

Grayjay.app

yt-dlp

Downside is that you'll have to regularly delete all the videos you've downloaded.

Grayjay

Hell, I'm having issues using the plain old YouTube website. It tries to make me sign in.

I pay a subscription to nebula and most of the creators i want are on there.

Freetube and newpipe for me. However I will say they just don't work sometimes. So then I just am left with my browser.

Tubular on on mobile and trying to find a Non Electron app for pc

Downie.app (MacOS) and yt-dlp (multiplatform).

I am not watching YouTube content while these are blocked. I will not watch stupid ads. I will not submit to shitty platforms that suck. Until these work again, there is no YouTube.

I'm finding other ways to fill my free time during the holiday break. I'll have a bevy of new content to watch when they're updated.

I found that switching my VPN server allowed FreeTube to work for me. I'm on Mullvad's South African servers atm, which are quite slow. If anyone knows of any unblocked Mullvad servers that are faster, lmk, but those were the first ones I found that you can use FreeTube with.

YTDLnis

You can watch, download video, download only audio.

Searching Videos on FreeTube but watching these in the SMplayer, because FreeTube lists theVideos, but often don't play it. SMplayer works almost always, Also possible open the Video copying the URL in it. Another possibility is searching the Video with Andisearch and watch it there in the search results sandboxed and anonym with the random proxies which use Andisearch.

Newpipe still up as of this morning. Hope it stays that way.

Vpn

I discovered that I watch enough YouTube to warrant paying for a premium subscription. I've turned off viewing history (after one video, so the homepage renders).

This isn't a solution for everyone, but it works for me.

I personally use libretube (with piped proxy disabled in settings) with proton vpn. If it shows the "sign in to confrim your not a bot" mesaage I just swap vpn servers.