If you use the default piped instance then it's usually overloaded. You can either try finding an alternative or just host your own, personally I do the ladder I rented a VPS for 20 bucks a month and I host my own pipe there
To add on to this for iOS/macOS/iPadOS if you use safari you can send YouTube to your TV through airplay. Skips all the ads and if you use sponsorblock skips that too, so if you are too lazy to install smart tube this is a setup that works nicely.
as far as I see freetube is just written in html, css and Javascript, then all of that thrown into an Electron app. you can run these elements without Electron in any browser, it just won't have access to as many device features as the app does.
I've built a web version here from the source just to try it out. it's somewhat buggy but it does work
I pay for YouTube because it does give more revenue than watching an ad to the creators. I pay 6$ and watch hundreds of hours monthly. If it was more than that I will consider alternatives and AdBlock (what I was doing before started my sub). To each their own :)
It's still Google, which is basically just another EvilCorp Inc. Probably donating more directly to the creator would give them more money than going through Google.
$20 month for family music streaming plus the insane amount of good content is a bargain. Y'all just want to be salty they are forcing you to stop freeloading 🤣.
If the France sports dns blocking has proved anything it’s that most people just don’t bother. And if it doesn’t work just accept it instead of just changing a DNS setting in a computer.
Of course I agree with the comment. I take all my copyright advice from random comments on the internet. Especially the ones that use expletives. Those are the best comments to take advice from.
