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You can't really make your favorite content creators switch to other platforms, so the best thing you can do for now is use a privacy-preseving frontend for YT. I can highly recommend Piped for PC and LibreTube for Android. They allow you to watch all YT videos and manage your subs/playlists without having a YT account or using the YT site or app. You can even self-host a Piped server if you want to.
Edit: So the major difference between Piped+LibreTube and NewPipe is that Piped is a website that handles the YT scraping and sub/playlist management for you, and the LibreTube app just connects to it like the YT app connects to the YT website. This means you can access it from your browser, synchronize your subs/playlists between devices and also hide your IP from Google servers. NewPipe accesses YT directly from your phone, so it has to do all that by itself and on every device separately.
Basically:
@shrugal
What about NewPipe? Its nice and it also works with peertube, soundcloud, bandcamp. Its neat to have all these in the same app
@opensource
The main difference that has me using LibreTube rather than NewPipe is because my subscriptions are on my piped account so they are synced between phone and desktop (browser). Piped is built on top of NewPipe's extractor library anyway.
I've been a NewPipe user since forever but I tried LibreTube like a month ago and I have completely switched.
I don't consume Soundcloud or Bandcamp, and I'd like to consume PeerTube with an account, but NewPipe is fully local.
So that makes NewPipe only useful for YouTube (for me), and FreeTube has a few extra features that made me switch:
Sounds interesting. I'll try that out.
@NaoPb
I just edited previous post because i confused the name of the app other pipebuzzname.
Its funny, i've been using it for years and i still confuse the name
Let me know your thoughts once you've tried it
I was wondering if there would be app which is not hosting videos itself only shows me content from nebula and all other services maybe including youtube in one convinient place so it work kind of like wefwef.app just provide me nice interface for existing services so to check if there is new interesting video i need to check only one app and not the whole bunch of apps.
I think your best option would be something like an RSS reader. Most website offer RSS feeds for channels or subs, so you can add those to the reader and create one list of new videos.
Actually you are right i am using rss for news and for notifications even from lemmy if someone adds new comment but when i was creating my account on nebula they didnt suport rss now they do so thank you. I would still like if i can get updates for all my nebula subscribed channels because right now i have to add them manually one by one. Maybe i will create some app to which you can link various video services and it will show you timeline with all new videos from multiple places since nothing like it aparently does not exist.
What you mention is similar to NewPipe, isn't it?
Piped and Newpipe have similar names, but Piped is a separate project that is a frontend and relies on someone hosting an instance, it's more similar to Invidious than it is to Newpipe
Piped uses the Newpipe Extractor, so they basically use the same tech. But IMO the biggest advantage of Piped is that you can sync your subs and playlists between devices. Piped is also more private as it's not your phone that talks with YouTube.