YouTube VS FreeTube

YouTube Reviews

1. YoUMT    

   about 1 year ago
   Good

   To be honest, YouTube is not only a platform where you can watch /download the video ,but a wonderful field where you can share and grow personally and help oher people to flourish through sharing your vision , art ,creativity ,etc.

2. Sandra-G    

   almost 2 years ago
   Dual purpose

   I like the idea of YouTube serving as a search engine and an entertaining feat

FreeTube Reviews

YouTube mentions (1739)

• It's the End of the Web as We Know It

  Sounds like an education problem ? This kind of spam is an annoyance, but you learn to filter it out soon enough. Stack Overflow is a great example : its value is not so much in giving you a quick answer, but even more because you will see several answers, and the discussion around them. And yes, sure, convincing malicious actors there are always possible, but not probable. Same thing with Wikipedia's Talk pages,... - Source: Hacker News / about 20 hours ago

• Krazam OS

  Obligatory microservices video: https://youtu.be/y8OnoxKotPQ They're hilarious, I think only matched by Austin Nasso who does a tech roast show: https://youtube.com/@austinnasso/videos. - Source: Hacker News / 1 day ago

• Ask HN: High quality Python scripts or small libraries to learn from

  Beazley's videos on YouTube including his channel are great https://youtube.com/@dabeazllc. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Calculus Made Easy

  So starting basically from "zero" in order to learn the prerequisites before learning what you actually want to learn on your own can feel daunting at times. But I think taking shortcuts will result in frustration. So, here I am taking algebra courses on YT with 38 years. [0] https://youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard?si=0kiGvmbZv4b9Sgf9. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Embeddings are a good starting point for the AI curious app developer

  Without getting into any big debates about whether or not RAG is medium-term interesting or whatever, you can ‘pip install sentence-transformers faiss’ and just immediately start having fun. I recommend using straightforward cosine similarity to just crush the NYT’s recommender as a fun project for two reasons: there’s an API and plenty of corpus, and it’s like, whoa, that’s better than the New York Times. He’s... - Source: Hacker News / 6 days ago

FreeTube mentions (36)

• Tell HN: YouTube RSS feeds are gone

  Use https://freetubeapp.io for desktop OSes I think there are other apps for mobile OSes (no idea I don't watch YT on mobile. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Firefox slow to load YouTube? Just another front in Google's war on ad blockers

  I just use a free desktop client called Freetube instead ( https://freetubeapp.io ). Don't even have to login or create a profile, and there's a ton of UI customization options built in. Voila -- no more Google shenanigans. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• YouTube

  You can use https://freetubeapp.io/ to access Youtube in privacy. Source: 5 months ago

• List of YouTube alternatives not owned by Google

  I use FreeTube also. This is what I am using on my Mac. They have the app for Windows, MacOSx64, and various Linux OSs. No app for iOSs but maybe if we support him he may want to go further. On my Android tablet and phone I am using Grayjay, which also is another alternative. Source: 5 months ago

• How to block YT ads like a champ

  [FreeTube](https://freetubeapp.io/) \- Unlike the next 3, this will require a download, however it has a UI that looks closest to Youtube, downloads, 1080p and more! And is available on Linux as well. Source: 6 months ago