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Youtube frontend are not the solution!
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2025
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100% Especially since Google is cracking down on alternative front ends like freetube and blocking VPN IPs
The hard part will be to convince creators to go to platforms where they don't get paid
Is self-hosting a YouTube front-end reliable? Public instances often don’t work, but maybe Google doesn’t block private ones?
Yeah, but this defeats the purpose of being anonymous and not sending your habits and IP to facist america, if you are the only one using that instance, it doesn't give you any anonymity
Then you might just use freetube with local back end