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Crappy Design

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Noticed that theres no equivalent to r/crappydesign here yet so i made one

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

This is when you're supposed to use the FOSS alternatives

https://invidious.io/

https://newpipe.net/

https://freetubeapp.io/

Me personally because I don't have a Google account nor saw a real gain in getting one (for what I do in my day to day), I just switched to these for subscriptions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Yep, without the need of a Google acc. No shitty ads, more functionality, and they're typically more customizable :p

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

+to that. However I haven't found proper alternative yet.

  • I got so used that dump algorithm that at least 40% of times recommends what I'm actually interested at, that it feels so hard to go back to watch unordered vids
  • Newer content is still lacking on alternatives. Like coding tutorials or documentaries etc.
  • On the other hand I found many old forgotten internet classics on these alternative sites like old ads and funny clips that we used to watch at 240p back in the day.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Point one hits home. It's nice that I can look through my feed but I also want to find new stuff and piped is not giving me that. I still use it in case my yt account gets banned lol

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should also start looking into libredirect, an extension to route your youtube traffic to invidious instances

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'll look into that ^^ thanks friendo