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So, recently got freetube downloaded, and love every bit of it. But I still forget myself, and put youtube into the url bar... So, is it possible to redirect Yt to Freetube instead?

Thanks

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Here's the GitHub link if you want it for a chromium based browser: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

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

Thanks, wasn't aware of that 😇

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

There's a Firefox redirect extension.. when I used to use reddit I redirected www.reddit.com to old.reddit.com

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

You could just override your local DNS to do so, but you'll end up breaking other sites that try to load it at some point. Maybe try only using a bookmark?

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

This would also create issue with certificates.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Electron which is Google

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.

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

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.

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

And Electron uses V8 which is again Google.

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

V8 is open source. Just like Chromium, Google doesn't control it.

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

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.

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

Maybe we'll eventually see a version of FreeTube running on Tauri one day (one can dream).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, nice project!