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Redirect Youtube.com to Freetube desktop app? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by LunchEnjoyer@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] Pantherina@feddit.de -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.

[–] Vexz@kbin.social 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.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Damn, nice project!

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 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.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

And Electron uses V8 which is again Google.

[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Pantherina@feddit.de 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.