As it stands, both Piped and Invidious are dead.
Because od that, I almost completely stopped watching youtube but l’d still sometimes like to check what the people I follow posted (I used to do that via Piped).
Are there any new ways of following people without actually using Google? I’m aware of the tools that download new videos as they come out but I’m more interested in just “subscribing”, kinda like RSS?
Ideally it would be on iOS
Edit: I found it, “Unwatched” on iOS is awesome, thanks to [email protected]
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Revanced and Firefox + uBlock Origin.
First one’s hard to set up, but I’m sure anybody self-hosting literally anything could do it in two seconds.
My personal Invidious server works just fine.
I am already paying for proton vpn for other reasons and connecting to other countries that don’t allow ads seems to work. It even works on NVIDIA media player and I might even assume Apple TV. I just lost my premium today so yeah
What countries might that be?
Albania and Azerbaijan have worked for me.
Less developed countries who need their bandwidth more than you or countries at war… so not really a good idea after all.
I just use yt-dlp and VLC ¯\(ツ)/¯
I’m using News Explorer for my RSS feeds which also supports subscribing to YouTube channels. In the newer versions it even pulls the comments from YT.
I just use Newpipe
However, Piped and Invidious are not dead. YouTube is trying really hard to kill them but they still work somewhat. It is a cat and mouse game.
They’re effectively dead. I haven’t ever found a single instance that works for more than a few days in years, despite people constantly recommending them.
Probably because people self-host them. I have an invidious instance self-hosted and use clipious on android to watch videos on it. Feels super modern and have pretty much no issues. Public instances usually don’t work because of datacenter ips get blocked by YouTube.
Orion browser works fine for me on iOS
piped.video still works for me: subscriptions, categories, comments. Watching is MPV
Self hosted Invidious still works
i “subscribe” via rss in freshrss, just use the normal youtube.com on desktop and mobile browser. StoptheMadness on iOS to strip ads
On my phone I still use LibreTube but with the option to load the video directly from YouTube (essentially doing what NewPipe is doing) and on PC I just use YouTube’s directly. I still use Piped to keep my subscriptions synchronized tho.
Unwatched is great on ios.
it’s so pointless
? its pointless to watch videos without it being tracked to an account and with adds removed?
This is awesome, thank you!
Whoa, this is it! This is what I’m looking for
As others have said, invidious is not dead, and they’re working on factoring out the part that interfaces with YouTube itself, so that updates to react to changes in YouTube will be able to be implemented much faster.
https://github.com/alexta69/metube and Plex
I used NewPipe for a while, now I’m trying out a fork called PipePipe. https://github.com/InfinityLoop1308/PipePipe
