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Goodbye Chrome. It was great while it lasted. (lemmy.ca)
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I'm fucking done with Chrome. Fuck this.

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[–] Nougat@kbin.social 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You guys see ads?

[–] XTL@sopuli.xyz 24 points 1 year ago

Yeah, sometimes. Archive.org has a nice collection of vintage ones.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Now I do, thanks to YouTube.

[–] Azzu@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Firefox + ublock origin solves that

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

FreeTube has been very nice to me.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried invidious and it's great but my issue with it is I can't see my subscriptions, see which videos I've already watched or leave likes on videos :/

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

can't see my subscriptions

FreeTube has good instructions for how to export your existing subscriptions from YouTube and then import those into FreeTube. Those go into the default "All Channels" profile. From there, you can make more profiles, and add subscriptions into those. I have several now: News, Academia, Bushcraft, Motoring, more. Switching between them is seamless, you don't lose your place.

see videos I've already watched

There is a History you can go to, although it appears to only show history for "All Channels" (does not filter based on profile subscriptions used above). There is a settings toggle for "Hide Videos on Watch."

leave likes on videos

That's true, you can't leave likes on or comment on videos (though you can view comments). I'm in the "oh fucking well" camp on that.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

but freetube is an application right? I'd rather watch videos in my browser

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

... Okay? I guess?

I mean, a browser is an application, too. Add the Privacy Redirect extension to your browser, and it'll open all YouTube links in FreeTube, so it's really pretty seamless.

I'm not sure what's got me promoting FreeTube so much right now. I just started using it less than a week ago. The learning curve is quite shallow, and since I only watch videos on my desktop (not on my shitty shitty phone), I don't have to be concerned with my history and subscriptions being synced anywhere.

[–] stebo02@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yeah a browser is an application but this requires me to install yet another application and idk it feels weird to install an application just for watching YouTube... I'm just hoping there's other alternatives like invidious that are available on a browser