I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features:
- Ad blocking
- SponsorBlock
- Subscriptions without account
- Latest videos from your subscriptions
- Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
- and more
I’d also would like to add that in my case FreeTube has lower resource impact than YouTube in a browser. When I was watching YouTube videos in a browser, my CPU fan was running constantly which is not the case with FreeTube: the fan never starts when I use the app.
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I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features:
making youtube a usable thing againhttps://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube
Also:
https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl
I’d also would like to add that in my case FreeTube has lower resource impact than YouTube in a browser. When I was watching YouTube videos in a browser, my CPU fan was running constantly which is not the case with FreeTube: the fan never starts when I use the app.
Probably your browser isn't using the gpu correctly (example if it was an ubuntu snap)
I tried both Firefox and Chrome/Edge under Windows 10 running on my MacBook Pro from 2019 — they have this issue. FreeTube doesn’t and I’m happy!