🧩

  • 4 Posts
  • 8 Comments
Joined 2Y ago
cake
Cake day: Jul 02, 2023
help-circle
rss
Free and open-source YouTube clients w/ no ads
image
[LibreTube](https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube) - uses [Piped](https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped) as video source by default. Subscriptions and playlists can be created, all without actually interacting with YouTube. [Clipious](https://github.com/lamarios/clipious) - uses [Invidious](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious) as the video source. Also allows for subscribing and accounts. Lesser known client [NewPipe](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe) - Gets the source directly from YT. Allows for subscribing and creating playlists Additionally, there's also [ReVanced](https://revanced.app/) that lets you patch the regular YT app to include useful features.
fedilink
568
Free and open-source YouTube clients w/ no ads
fedilink
I would say I’m surprised, but honestly I’m not
The amount of data this app collects actually makes my stomach churn. Jesus christ.
fedilink
59
I would say I’m surprised, but honestly I’m not
fedilink
sunglocto
creator
to[email protected]•Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)
link
fedilink
English
2•2Y

I guess you can use AltStore. I heard you have to renew the apps every 7 days, though

link
fedilink
sunglocto
creator
to[email protected]•Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)
link
fedilink
English
1•2Y

Yeah I use Droid-ify too. Reasons why is that it looks much better than the stock F-Droid client and is also much newer. Of course I still have the original client just in case but droidify is just better overall

link
fedilink
Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)
Has anyone noticed that apps on F-Droid or that you just get from GitHub are just better than the ultra-popular apps on the play store? Most of them are open source and have no ads or trackers. But this isn't true on the Play Store at all. I see myself always getting apps from F-Droid now because there is always an alternative to the ad-infested bloated privacy infesting BS that I find on the play store. It's unfortunate that it's gotten this bad, where the only reason I even use the play store is to install updates or games.
fedilink
160
Open-source apps are consistently better than the average closed source app on the playstore (opinion)
fedilink
sunglocto
creator
to[email protected]•Should I delete the Google app from my phone?
link
fedilink
5•
edit-2
2Y

Thank you everyone for your repsponses - I’ve decided to take the route of uninstalling Google via ADB.

If anyone is wondering, this is the conmand I used to do it:

adb shell pm uninstall -k --user 0 com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox

link
fedilink
sungloctoto[email protected]•What's the 3 apps that you can't live without?
link
fedilink
English
2•2Y

I absolutely love Aliucord. I’ve always thought that the UI on mobile looked really bad so using a MD3 theme + compact mode plugin fixed all my issues

link
fedilink
Should I delete the Google app from my phone?
I have had Google as an app disabled for the past 2 months. I don't use google assistant or anything like that and I have had no issues. I'm not going to uninstall the play store, google play services or carrier services since I know those are pretty much integral to my phone. I've used ADB to uninstall the vast majority of the bloatware or other software on my Samsung phone, but I'm not sure if uninstalling Google will actually cause my device to become inoperable.
fedilink
32
Should I delete the Google app from my phone?
fedilink
sungloctoto[email protected]•What are Android's Best Weather Apps?
link
fedilink
5•2Y

I use prognoza - it’s open source and has MD3 widgets

https://github.com/davidtakac/prognoza

I started using it after the weather apps I use were just so fucking bloated I gave up and looked for another solution

link
fedilink