FreeTube has been rewritten from scratch to provide a new and enhanced experience, including a built in extractor API to serve videos.
Hi Reddit!
I typically don't like self-advertising, but there's been enough public interest in this that I feel like it's worth making the announcement myself.
FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube client (For Windows, Mac, and Linux) that is focused around watching YouTube in a more private manner compared to YouTube directly. It includes all major features you'd expect from YouTube like subscriptions, playlists, history, etc. All of this information is stored locally on your machine and not sent out to any third party servers.
Today's release is a year long rewrite of the application that includes much better stability among other things. One of the big major additions is a new local API extractor for obtaining data. You may know that we've used the Invidious API in the past. It's still an option, but we now have 2 methods of obtaining data, which really lets you tweak how private your experience is. We continue to use no official API from YouTube and can now optionally be entirely independent of Invidious or other external API services.
If you've used FreeTube in the past, you might be aware that there were quite a few issues with it. Parts of it weren't stable and bugs were fairly frequent. This should hopefully be changed now as we have a much better code base to work with. I highly recommend that you try it out again if you've tried it in the past. The feedback so far has been very positive.
You can take a look at the related blog post over here:
https://write.as/freetube/release-0-8-0-beta-the-rewrite-is-here
You can download the latest release here:
https://freetubeapp.io/#download
There's bound to be someone who is upset about this, so I'll just get this out of the way.
FreeTube is built using Electron. I'm not going to apologize on my use of it as we've had many internal discussions about this. At the end of the day, Electron is still my best tool for making sure that the app is compatible with all major operating systems. Using Electron also keeps the door open for a web version in the future. Switching away from Electron would remove all discussions about a web version or cross-platform support. I would be focusing on Linux support only and would be dropping half of my current user base. It's simply not a good option.
I'll be available to answer any questions you have, let me know what you think!
https://redd.it/j3x1v5
@r_privacy
#freetube #yt #youtube #pc
Hi Reddit!
I typically don't like self-advertising, but there's been enough public interest in this that I feel like it's worth making the announcement myself.
FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube client (For Windows, Mac, and Linux) that is focused around watching YouTube in a more private manner compared to YouTube directly. It includes all major features you'd expect from YouTube like subscriptions, playlists, history, etc. All of this information is stored locally on your machine and not sent out to any third party servers.
Today's release is a year long rewrite of the application that includes much better stability among other things. One of the big major additions is a new local API extractor for obtaining data. You may know that we've used the Invidious API in the past. It's still an option, but we now have 2 methods of obtaining data, which really lets you tweak how private your experience is. We continue to use no official API from YouTube and can now optionally be entirely independent of Invidious or other external API services.
If you've used FreeTube in the past, you might be aware that there were quite a few issues with it. Parts of it weren't stable and bugs were fairly frequent. This should hopefully be changed now as we have a much better code base to work with. I highly recommend that you try it out again if you've tried it in the past. The feedback so far has been very positive.
You can take a look at the related blog post over here:
https://write.as/freetube/release-0-8-0-beta-the-rewrite-is-here
You can download the latest release here:
https://freetubeapp.io/#download
There's bound to be someone who is upset about this, so I'll just get this out of the way.
FreeTube is built using Electron. I'm not going to apologize on my use of it as we've had many internal discussions about this. At the end of the day, Electron is still my best tool for making sure that the app is compatible with all major operating systems. Using Electron also keeps the door open for a web version in the future. Switching away from Electron would remove all discussions about a web version or cross-platform support. I would be focusing on Linux support only and would be dropping half of my current user base. It's simply not a good option.
I'll be available to answer any questions you have, let me know what you think!
https://redd.it/j3x1v5
@r_privacy
#freetube #yt #youtube #pc
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