Are You Fed Up With Youtube ? Its Algorithms? Its Addictive Nature? If You Are Not Then You Definitely Should Be! Because Youtube Tracks Your Every Click and Activity on It, such as what videos you watch, what you search and everything else. But The Thing Is That you Can Escape It! Youtube Earns Its Main Money, by advertisement. Yeah those pesky annoying ads you see everywhere ( unless you got youtube premium for which you still gotta pay!). So Cmon Even If you are not convinced right now, atleast try these alternatives that are mentioned here. You Wont Regret It!
NOTE THAT ALL OF THE THINGS MENTIONED HERE ARE COMPLETELY FREE, OPEN-SOURCE ( MAINLY GITHUB ), AND ARE AWESOME ( OBVIOUSLY )!
I AM NOT THE DEV OR ANYTHING. I AM JUST SUPPORTING THESE APPS BECAUSE THEY DESERVE IT! KUDOS TO THE DEVS FOR MAKING THEM!
NewPipe
Features
It Got No ADS! NO TRACKING! It Supports Youtube and even other services like SoundCloud, Peertube etc. It Is capable of playing videos upto 4k or 2k ( if your device supports that ). Its super lightweight ( way more than youtube ).
It Has Dark Mode as well.
Its well maintained And Used By Around 100K Users ( My Analytics ).
You Can Adjust The Pitch Of A Video!
You DONT NEED TO SIGN IN OR ANYTHING.
It has a whole LOT Customization in the settings!
You Can Add Playlists!
I will Add More Features!
Some Lacks
Its Android Only ( Atleast For Now )
Youtube Tries To Change its interface time to time which may result in videos not playing or some features breaking, but the large community fixes it soon by releasing a new update! ( DEFINITELY NOT A ‘CON’ But still I mentioned it for Information )
FreeTube
Pros
Its For Windows, Linux And MacOS!
Obviously No ADS, No TRACKING. Pure PRIVACY!
It has a modern Interface. It Supports Many Different Themes ( Light and Dark ones )
It also has a whole lot Customization in the settings!
Its More Lightweight Than The Youtube Website!
It has a portable version as well!
You Can Play Videos Upto 4k ( Only if your device supports it ).
I may add more Featues!
Cons
- Sometimes Obviously You May Experience Problems With The Video playback ( like 2% of the times ). But Just press CTRL+R to Refresh The Page And It will Play it. Obviously Google Tries to update Their Youtube Website From Time to Time but freetube also does update.
Will Add More Cons If I find!
So Basically Thats all Dawg! Make Sure To Check This, and I will update This Blog! So Dont Worry!
If You Got An Iphone then dont worry you can try The Brave Browser And going to youtube.com - you get no ads, but it might be slow as you are visiting the website. You Can try piped.video ( website ) as well. I will find more!