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I use Freetube. Its a app, you don’t sign in, you can subscribe to stuff but those are stored locally (as I understand it?), adblock, sponsorblock, hide shorts etc are built in. Of course since you don’t use it with a account, you can’t comment, but that’s just a nice bonus feature. You can still read the comments if you so choose. Because it doesn’t load all the trackers and bullshit, its also about a billion times lighter than the youtube page, which is nice since my laptop is 700 years old and struggles to run anything, really.
It does have “popular” and “trending” pages but those rarely work, another nice bonus.
The only downside is that there is no “sort by popular” option when browsing a channels videos. But all in all, highly recommend it. Apparently there are other such apps available but thats the only one I’ve used.
This article is about RSS feeds. Im pretty sure your client relies on RSS feeds to show you your locally subscribed feed of videos.
YouTube has made all these apps completely useless by blocking users that aren’t logged in.
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this is intended behaviour. rss feeds don’t drive up engagement.
