You are probably thinking of freetube
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Freetube is great, it's the only way I watch YouTube now.
This looks promising! Might need to install it!
Thanks a lot! Maybe one of these is what I might have heard of. There's no way to speed the access right? I live in Asia, there's sometimes waits of 15s to get the video to start, and I have 1000Mbps symmetric fiber (Tested with invidious and piped...I think the one I might have heard mentioning might have been piped!)
There are plasmatube and audiotube in the KDE suite
The new frontend is called LightTube. There is a link to one of the instance: https://tube.kuylar.dev/. It's that frontend that was mention the other day :)
FreeTube is great for downloading YouTube content to Jellyfin so my daughter can watch it without ads.
@ibroughtashrubbery heard nothing of that sort. There are in-browser frontends like Piped and Invidious with it's numerous instances e.g. yewtu.be. I'm also seeing few Qt-based ytdl frontends in AUR, might be what you are looking for?
I generally use mpv+yt-dlp from the CLI (once I have a URL). Often I use youtube-tldr (google it) to get a summary of a page - maybe you have noticed /s that youtube videos often take 10-15 minutess to get across one simple point!!
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