Alternatives to YouTube

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If you are desperate for one alternative to Youtube you are in the right place. Why want to find one alternative to Youtube? Well mainly because Youtube is owned by Google and on this site we look for valid alternatives for all services offered by Google but let's go too beyond Google.

As you can imagine Youtube, being of Google, has many tracers That they will follow you for all the sites you visit (unless you have followed the our guide on Browsers) it's a algorithm it will suggest what your passions are and what you will like.

Even if you don't log in, you will have noticed that the YouTube homepage it is somehow personalized to you. This is not necessarily a good addition factor privacy stay giving away all your interests and passions in one private company which in turn will decide what you like and what you don't by proposing it to you on its homepage.

Perhaps the best thing would be to independently search for what we like, based on our real passions and feelings, not based on what the YouTube algorithm thinks is right for us.

Privacy, Cookies And tracers

We will address the problem below privacy, Cookies And tracers related to YouTube looking for valid ones alternatives. In this case, unlike the more articles on Google, we will not only offer you real alternatives but mainly methods for watch YouTube without being tracked, profiles And followed. In short, in a private way, as it should be possible to do on any site.

A useful initial suggestion may be to use a session Browsers or a real e own Browsers dedicated to listen to YouTube. If used Brave for example you can create a new profile dedicated only to YouTube so that it is separate from your daily browsing. Profiles can also be created with Firefox but it is slightly more cumbersome.

Watch YouTube privately

The problem with finding real alternatives to YouTube is that, being the most famous social video platform, it often happens that if a video is not on YouTube you can't find it any other way. This detail therefore makes it impossible for us to find a real one alternative to YouTube understood as a competing site, but let's see below how it can be circumvented in some way YouTube watching his videos without being in the slightest tracks.

On Browsers

• Invidio.us it is an alternative entirely Open source ¹ to see videos on YouTube. It works well and rarely has problems. You can download the videos directly from here YouTube and you can also see subtitles without any problems. It is the first choice to see YouTube privately. Anyone can create one Instance, i.e. a server where this program runs. The complete list of instances there You can find here.

• Piped, a new alternative to watch YouTube videos privately. Beyond Invidious it has also been there for some time Piped, this too inevitably Open source ². A couple of available servers are: piped.video And piped.kavin.rocks. We've tried it a bit and it seems to work really well. Thanks for telling us about it our group Telegram.

• ViewTube ³, this is also another frontend for YouTube.

It also exists a very interesting extension call LibRedirect which is located both on Chrome/Brave what up Firefox. It allows you to automatically redirect all links and embeds to yours Instance Invidious's favorite!

Desktop

• FreeTube it is definitely the first choice if you prefer to have a desktop client instead of using a Browsers. There are some useful services such as local channel subscription and is multiplatform.

Android

There are several applications available on Android to view YouTube privately, we have only selected those open code:

• NewPipe, for obvious reasons There are no alternative apps to Youtube on the Play Store but it exists NewPipe a wonderful alternative Open source for all videos of YouTube. Thanks to NewPipe you can delete YouTube from your Android phone!
• Grayjay App ⁴, a fairly recent alternative developed and launched by Louis Rossmann an activist who fights for the right to repair of electronic instruments. The application is made really well and allows you to view not YouTube videos only but also of many other platforms such as PeerTube, Odysee and many others. The easiest way to download it is directly from their site, the APK installed which also has an auto-update system. Alternatively it is available on F-Droid.
• LibreTube is another alternative Open source ⁵ for Android: fast and stable.
• Similar to NewPipe you can also try SkyTube even if it hasn't been updated since August 2023 it still seems to work;
• Always for Android you will find the good UntrackMe For convert automatically all Youtube links!

iOS

There aren't many free applications that act as front-ends for YouTube on iOS. However, it was reported to us Yattee ⁶ but we haven't had the chance to try it:

• Yattee it's an application Open source available for iOS, tvOS and also macOS. You can install it through the program TestFlight or find here instructions for macOS and tvOS.

Real alternatives to Youtube Open source or decentralized

Here we are at the real alternatives to YouTube, unfortunately, as much as we greatly appreciate the effort and courage of these sites, they are really little used in Italy. If you know English, however, you might find some interesting channels and some curious videos to watch.

• PeerTube it's a network decentralized Of Hosting video. It is a very small reality even if it is growing. A Instance Italian you can find it at peertube.uno, while you can read the our article here. There has also been a for some time Search engine for all instances of Peertube created by Framasoft And his name is Sepia Search.

• Odysee it's a project Open source ⁷ and decentralized. Uses the LBRY protocol ⁸ and its peculiarity is that you can earn cryptocurrencies watching videos or posting them ⁹. It's a new way to monetize from videos without using YouTube anymore. It is used a lot, especially recently and it works very well with millions of monthly views, fast, stable and safe. Worth a try even if you are a creator and are tired of Youtube! ¹⁰

Alternatives to YouTube

In this section we will inform you of further information alternatives to Youtube, however, they are all not recommended as they are no less tracers And profiling of YouTube and of Google. We will therefore not delve into them in detail, but we will point them out to you only as such.
One of the alternatives for example is Vimeo, perhaps the most famous and complete of all, especially from artists, Dailymotion it is widely used in Italy also to load over movies, cartoons and other content with copyright. Metacafe however it is little used in Italy but has some interesting content. Then there are alternatives like RaiPlay, Mediaset Play or VVVVID.

You don't like these alternatives and you can't help it to use a Google service (or similar)? Then maybe you can think about installing applications inside Shelter, an app that isolates any other application by creating a work profile on your Android. Alternatively you can think of do not use the apps but to log in via the Browsers when it is possible. If you really want greater security you can dedicate a Browsers dedicated this way you will give them fewer permissions than installing the app.

1. Invidious on GitHub[↩]
2. source code by Piped[↩]
3. source code of ViewTube[↩]
4. Grayjay on GitLab[↩]
5. source code by LibreTube[↩]
6. Report on Yattee[↩]
7. lbry on GitHub[↩]
8. What is LBRY[↩]
9. What types of LBRY transactions are there?[↩]
10. LBRY × YouTube Sync[↩]

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