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Redirect Youtube.com to Freetube desktop app?
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this post was submitted on 12 Nov 2023
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Yes Freetube.
But... maybe you also want to use an Invidious instance that uses googlevideo javascript instead of proxying the videos? So you dont actually suck their resources.
Because Freetube runs on Electron which is Google, and I am not sure how hardened it is, probably just "not bad".
Do you know any minimal Invidious UI you can run from a Podman/Docker container? Like just the frontend, so that I can use Firefox instead of that. I think having that as a base and adding the freetube features would be great.
Use your favorite search engine and you'll probably find something. Or self host a Piped instance. It's very similar to Invidious but imo even better.
Maybe we'll eventually see a version of FreeTube running on Tauri one day (one can dream).
Damn, nice project!
How did you figure that out? Because Electron is based on Chromium?
In which case, I suppose you don't trust Brave because it's Google too.
Yeah Electron is Chromium hahahah. Sorry for the dumb abbreviation.
Its bloat for sure. An extra app, it takes a time to load and all. Has really great features though, makes Youtube tolerable.
No, I have ungoogled Chromium laying around but I am simply sad that Firefox Webapps or actual Apps are not a thing.
And Electron uses V8 which is again Google.
V8 is open source. Just like Chromium, Google doesn't control it.
They very much do control it and are quick to implement unwanted features in corporate interest like Web Integrity API, which has been removed again only after backlash.
No they don't: you're free to create your own fork, or compile out the stuff you don't like from the main repo - which is what all the Chromium-based privacy-focused browsers out there do, including Brave.