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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.
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.
i "subscribe" via rss in freshrss, just use the normal youtube.com on desktop and mobile browser. StoptheMadness on iOS to strip ads
I just use yt-dlp and VLC ¯\(ツ)/¯
On my phone I still use LibreTube but with the option to load the video directly from YouTube (essentially doing what NewPipe is doing) and on PC I just use YouTube's directly. I still use Piped to keep my subscriptions synchronized tho.
Orion browser works fine for me on iOS
Unwatched is great on ios.
Whoa, this is it! This is what I’m looking for
This is awesome, thank you!
it's so pointless
? its pointless to watch videos without it being tracked to an account and with adds removed?
piped.video still works for me: subscriptions, categories, comments. Watching is MPV
NewPipe or Patched YouTube App using ReVanced Manager
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.
They're effectively dead. I haven't ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.
Probably because people self-host them. I have an invidious instance self-hosted and use clipious on android to watch videos on it. Feels super modern and have pretty much no issues. Public instances usually don't work because of datacenter ips get blocked by YouTube.
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
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.
It hasn't been working lately. Videos stop at 0:59
That's a YouTube/VPN thing. Every other app is experiencing the same issue, in my experience.
Aaa you were right thanks! What a relief
Hmm, I haven't had that issue
Eh fuck it, I'm enjoying freetube now
Grayjay by FUTO has been working well for me
Grayjay started shitting the bed on me recently (Android via Samsung and Graphene, and on Desktop Linux/Windows) unless I disable vpn.
Even with Agent andDNS whitelisting for the apps.
A bit of a bummer after recently donating.
That's not GrayJay. That's YT. They've started blocking access to users who use a VPN without logging in.
God forbid they don't know everything about you.
Edit: response from FUTO
Seems to be related to UMP streams and we have issue opened for it and it's top priority for us to fix this now. It is however very complex so it takes time to fix it but at least we figured out why it is happening and once it is fixed it should be a smooth experience on Youtube at least for a while until they change something else on their backend...
Aye, that was my suspicion. Really awesome to be stripped of options for privacy so they can suck down that data.
Yt-dlp still works thankfully.
Self hosted Invidious still works
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.
I believe that YouTube supports RSS. I haven't used it in years, but gPodder allowed subscribing to channels.
Ah, yeah. From this post:
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= plus that channel ID from the previous step.From there, something (like a podcast client) needs to grab the video.
Otherwise, I've been using Tartube to download to my media server, which is not great but fine, except for needing to delete the lock file when it (or the computer) crashes, and the fact that the media server hasn't the foggiest idea of how to organize the "episodes."
FreeTube still works for my Linux system, for most videos.
same
My personal Invidious server works just fine.