As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead. Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l’d still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped). Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I’m aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I’m more interested in just “subscribing”, kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS

Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to !FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone

  • Possibly linux@lemmy.zipEnglish
    25·
    18 days ago

    I just use Newpipe

    However, Piped and Invidious are not dead. YouTube is trying really hard to kill them but they still work somewhat. It is a cat and mouse game.

  • JamonBear@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    24·
    18 days ago

    yt-dlp --sponsorblock-remove all <url> is the way. It turns playlist link into nicely named, curated video files awaiting to played by a regular video player

    • IronKrill@lemmy.caEnglish
      81·
      18 days ago

      Does “all” remove every type of segment? Because that seems excessive for most people, there is a lot of filler/etc sections that are over-zealously tagged.

  • jevans ⁂@lemmy.mlEnglish
    141·
    18 days ago

    As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they’re working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.

  • JaggedRobotPubes@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    18 days ago

    Revanced and Firefox + uBlock Origin.

    First one’s hard to set up, but I’m sure anybody self-hosting literally anything could do it in two seconds.

  • fitgse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    18 days ago

    I was using freshrss which can grab the rad feed for a channel, but I’ve moved to tube archivist with a Jellyfin plugin. Now they are all predownloaded and just show up on my tv via Jellyfin app.

    It’s a way better way to keep track of what you want to watch.

    • Konraddo@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      18 days ago

      Just curious if there’s a setting in any of those applications that removes downloaded videos which have been watched at least once, and after x amount of time? It’s sort of like a watch list. If watched, I don’t want to keep the video. But if I do, I can add it to a playlist and let PinchFlat download it for archive.

  • pedroparamo@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    I am already paying for proton vpn for other reasons and connecting to other countries that don’t allow ads seems to work. It even works on NVIDIA media player and I might even assume Apple TV. I just lost my premium today so yeah

    Edit. Just noticed this is a self hosted sub, I’ll just leave this in case someone needs the info but otherwise I’ll delete

  • mbirth@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.

  • lent9004@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    18 days ago

    Addressing the subscribing part; I had similar requirements, so I started subscribing via FreshRSS while using a custom theme to give it a YouTube-like experience.

    I shared the setup a few month ago here: https://lemmy.world/post/21381606

    Edit: One of the benefits of using selfhosted RSS with a web interface is that it is platform agnostic.