36
Frustrated with Freetube, what do you use on desktop
(sh.itjust.works)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
36 points (100.0% liked)
Asklemmy
55564 readers
744 users here now
A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions
Search asklemmy ๐
If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!
- Open-ended question
- Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
- Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
- Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
- An actual topic of discussion
Looking for support?
Looking for a community?
- Lemmyverse: community search
- sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
- !lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities
~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~
founded 7 years ago
MODERATORS
Why do people complicate their lives so much?
Firefox+ublock origin+ privacy badger does it for me.
With apps, you can subscribe to channels, keep history, create playlist etc. Not possible with website.
Not possible? That's precisely what I do.
without an account?
No, I use an account, created with a tempmail address.
this discussion is aimed at people who don't want to give google their data
How are you giving google your data if it's from a tempmail?
Also, can you please point out to me where in OPs post does it mention anything about privacy? It specifically mentions not paying, not privacy concerns.
you give your watch history, how long you have hovered over a thumbnail, search history, and they use ai to determine your personality to recommend you more videos. you give everything except for your email, your email is largely irrelevant as they tie your account to your other stuff via trackers anyway
OP doesn't have to mention privacy. privacy is to be expected when looking for an alternative to freetube (privacy friendly software that doesn't require logging in and has offline subscriptions)
It's my informed opinion that you are wrong on both points, but you are of course entitled to your opinion.
YouTube algorithm.
ublock origin only blocks ads.
But if you want a bit of privacy it can't stop youtube from collecting your data and keeping you in a feedloop bubble.
With these types of clients yt can't track you. and everytime i reload the app it's like I am new user to them they don't have all my browsing history. plus you can subscribe to channel without logging into yoututbe
This. I've never had an issue with YouTube just running ublock.