I have a headless raspberry PI 4 8GB connected to my TV setup with Kodi and the Jellyfin add-on. Now I would like to have a convenient option to watch Youtube in a privacy-friendly way on the TV.

The experience should be similar to Freetube: creating playlists, search videos, follow subscribed channels. I don’t mind running it either directly on the PI or install it on my server.

Thanks for any recommendations of what you folks use!

      • SuspiciousCarrot78@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        14 hours ago

        I actually wonder sometimes how it’s survived this long.

        There are … alternative methods. Fiddly, you have to roll your own, added frustration… but it could be done. Though I hope I never have to.

        OTOH, it’s a bit like hydra - cut one head off, three more appear. Until google fully locks down YouTube (and they might), there will always be wiggle room.

        Honestly, I think they know that if they get too annoying, everyone will go elsewhere, so they are boiling the frog slowly. I’d bet Smarttube, Revanced, PipePipe etc are the Zion to YouTube’s Matrix - allowed to exist as a pressure release valves.

        • SpatchyIsOnline@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          6 hours ago

          I actually wonder sometimes how it’s survived this long

          So I’ve been involved with the repo a little (just some basic issue triage and documentation stuff) and all I can say is that Yuliskov has made that project his life’s work. If anything happens to him, we’re all screwed!

    • scrooge101@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      I have an LG with WebOS which is also not connected to the internet. So that’s unfortunately not an option.

      • uuj8za@piefed.socialEnglish
        3·
        1 day ago

        I also have an LG TV. I bought an external Android TV box (Nvidia Shield) and now primarily use that as the interface.

        • Samiaouuuu@jlai.luEnglish
          2·
          23 hours ago

          He wants privacy from YouTube, pretty sure that he doesn’t want Walmart to steal his data either

            • cardfire@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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              3 hours ago

              Nobody makes their own boxes, everything you love to play with either gets designed, fabricated, or packaged in to boards, or assembled, in China.

              So tired of the casual racism of “this brand good, but that brand bad, because China.” I know you didn’t mean something malicious by it, but we’ve got to do better.