Stay away from Rumble. It’s a politically right focused mess with no more privacy offered. You want to avoid YouTube id suggest peer tube.
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What about Odysee?
Same problem pretty sure.
Oh, yeah. I noticed the comments are wild.
Rumble is pretty bad. There's not very many good alternatives to YouTube, but if you at least want a more privacy-preserving mobile app frontend for it, I'd recommend NewPipe or GrayJay (which, if you really want it, also supports Rumble, among very much lesser used federated alternatives like Peertube.)
I wouldn't recommend alternative decentralized video hosting platforms like Odysee either, as they are also very much heavily focused on conspiracy theories and random BS political topics with no merit. Kick funds destructive gambling behaviors and also funds fascists, so don't use them either.
If you're willing to pay, and your main priority is just deGoogling over specifically maximizing privacy as much as possible, you could pay for a Nebula subscription. They've got a lot of the creators you might be used to seeing on YouTube, with all their content on YouTube also on Nebula, along with some Nebula exclusive stuff. Normally it's 60 bucks a year, but I believe if you use creator codes from the sponsor reads creators will do on YouTube, you can get it for about $30-$36. Imo it's a pretty reasonable price if you just don't want to have to deal with YouTube. (and it is also supported by the GrayJay app)
I have a question. Is Lemmy app available on Obtainium but not on Fdroid?
Depends on which Lemmy app you want. Here's the ones on F-Droid, and for Obtainium you should be able to get all of those, plus any Lemmy app that only has a code repo but isn't published elsewhere.
Keep in mind that F-Droid is only gonna have things that are free and open source, with minimal to no tracking or external dependencies outside their primary use case. Apps that are normally paid or have a lot of trackers probably won't be on there.
If you find something only available on the Google Play Store, either use sandboxed play services (does give Google some information, like your IP address, knowledge of which apps you have installed, and could potentially exfiltrate data if an app is configured to send the data to Google Play Services), or Aurora Store (just a frontend for the Play Store, Google doesn't really get much info about you from that as long as you pick the Anonymous option when "signing in", but you have the added risk that the Aurora Store developers could theoretically tamper with app code)
You should always try to find apps available in this order, based on their chance of having code tampered at any point, and privacy concerns: Obtainium > F-Droid > Aurora Store > Sandboxed Play Store
Thank you very much for the useful info!! I hope graphene team will unveil its first smart phone with GrapheneOS this year! If that can happen' I'll happily ditch my pixel phone. Also, I won't give a single permission to gain any dat from me from Monday. I'm going to full degoogle. I use an iPhone now but I know their privacy is slightly better than stock android and bad than graphene OS for privacy.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I agree that Rumble isn’t the best option. I haven't been there for years and I didn't know the website was so bad. For alternatives, thank you for recommending NewPipe or GrayJay for a more privacy-focused platform. I'll try them this Monday after installing graphene OS! I can't wait for my full control. Also I'll support Fdroid developers!
They shouldn't have to reinvite you.
Rumble is just an alt-right YT. It's nearly entirely conservative propaganda. That's it's primary purpose.
I thought Rumble was going to be an alternative platform. After visiting there, my mind changed. I'll stay away from them. So, I have pipe pipe and peertube to install 😆
FYI Newpipe as an app can connect to YT and Peertube
Add the Newpipe repo to FDroid and get it from their repo , not the FDroid repo
No logging in to YT
I use pipepipe it seems to break less than newpipe.
Yeah I don't like logging in 😭
Yep. I like GrayJay because you can get a dozen video, music and podcast platforms in 1 app (pick and choose).
I'll look up grayjay!
But they are scheduling my work time on the app. I didn't want. They forced me to install the app.
F-Droid > Pipe Pipe
Thank you! I noted it! 😆