YouTube is one of Google's star services, it has become the largest and most successful video platform. Now it is more than that, being the livelihood of many youtubers and as a means of marketing for many companies and individuals. Well, so that you can follow your favorite channels or your favorite youtubers, you can install this free and open source app on your Linux distro. It's called FreeTube and with it you can see and manage subscriptions, channels, favorites, etc., as you could do in the Android app.
Also, if the rest of the free and open source alternatives do not convince you by not meeting your needs in terms of Privacy, then FreeTube will be your favorite app. You do not need to know your Google account to use it, so it will always keep your privacy and data safe, FreeTube does not need them to subscribe to channels, download videos, play them, search for content, or have a list of favorites.
And if that is not enough, we will also have a good experience without annoying ads, use light / dark modes, and allow the videos to be played in the favorite HTML5 compatible media player, of course, as it can be MPlayer or VLC. That is another huge advantage, as we do not have to be using the native player of the YouTube platform, preventing Google from tracking the visits and the video analyzes we do, with FreeTube only our IP will be shown, but that could also be corrected if we use VPN.
FreeTube can install in a simple way in your distro, you just have to follow the following steps:
wget https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases/download/v0.1.2-beta/FreeTube-linux-x64.tar.xz tar xf FreeTube-linux-x64.tar.xz cd FreeTube-linux-x64 ./FreeTube
Once open the interface, the handling is quite simple ... By the way, the developer is working to avoid using the command interface of the Google API to perform searches, soon that will be replaced in future versions. I hope you like it, don't forget to comment!
The app sucks and has spyware