Customize YouTube to work exactly the way you want it to.

I’m using this all the time myself. There is no login to YouTube required and it supports adding subscriptions and doing everything important you can do on YouTube.

And the best part is no ads whatsoever.

  • doodledup@lemmy.worldEnglish
    582·
    2 months ago

    Am I the only one that hates third-party clients for Desktop? They all have terrible UI and UX. Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go. For the phone it’s NewPipe or Grayjay.

    • xthexder@l.sw0.comEnglish
      11·
      2 months ago

      Personally I still use the Firefox + uBlock + SponsorBlock + YouTube combo on my phone too. Maybe if I watched more YouTube on my phone it’d be worth figuring out an app with a better mobile UI, but I like that it’s a consistent experience anywhere I watch from.

    • Psythik@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      2 months ago

      Don’t forget about Enhancer for YouTube, SponsorBlock, and DeArrow! They’re all a must-have for desktop YT.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      103·
      2 months ago

      LOL the only terrible UI is the YouTube one. I dunno how people deal with all the garbage content and vertical videos that are relentlessly crammed down your throat. Not to mention the completely fucked search function.

    • EngineerGaming@feddit.nlEnglish
      41·
      2 months ago

      I used to think it is redundant too, but now see it as a quality-of-life difference. Because I can track my subscriptions and watch history, as well as have playlists. That is a massive improvement over folders of bookmarks.

    • leadore@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      2 months ago

      Firefox + UBlock + Youtube is the way to go.

      Unless you don’t like Google tracking everything you watch on youtube, that is.

      • person420@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        Let’s be real, no matter how you’re watching YouTube, if you’re accessing the video directly and not cached through a third party server, Google is still tracking you.

    • daq@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I use the same combo on my phone without any issues or ads. Why use a client on the phone?

    • Kanda@reddthat.comEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      I use Firefox with ublock on desktop, works like a charm. My favourite on android is YouTube revanced

    • fross@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Revanced app had the superior UI/UX.

      Not because if taste, but because it is the YouTube UI that then allows you to add and remove stuff from the UI, getting away from all the user-hostile stuff. If you want to.

      • dan@upvote.auEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        ReVanced isn’t a third-party client though. It’s patches applied to the official client.

    • PenisDuckCuck9001@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
      21·
      2 months ago

      If you use ublock origin and watch a lot, they’ll eventually put your ip address on a list where you have to log in to watch anything. Newpipe seems to be able to circumvent this but yt-dlp can’t. I haven’t tried freetube but maybe freetube can circumvent that.