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Is there a way to use YouTube without ads and without a Google-account (with support for casting) (lemmy.world)
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I'm a very avid YouTube user, I've payed for Premium for the last couple of years but am becoming less and less comfortable with it.

YouTube is actually the last Google-service (besides Android, but there are plans to ditch Google there using something like /e/OS) I'm left using after switching to Proton Mail (instead of GMail), Here WeGo (instead Maps), TransIP Stack (instead of Drive) and a self-hosted Memos (instead of Keep).

I tend to watch YouTube on my TV by setting up a queue of videos on my phone and then casting them to my TV. This is all ad-free because of my Premium subscription, but of course everything is tracked.

Is there a way for me to watch YouTube, preferrable on my TV with my phone as remote control, without having a Google-account? I found NewPipe on FDroid, but that sadly does not provide casting (I managed to get it partially working by using VLC, but no queue and no sound whatever I tried)

There are also things like Inoreader that people use, but I believe that does not have queueing and casting as well, so it would not really work in my situation.

Sidenote: I like the idea of creators receiving at least a bit of the payments I make as a reward for the content they post, but I reckon that with something like NewPipe/Piped an ad-blocker in place those would be lost.

Anyone got some ingenious solutions working?

Edit: my TV currently is an Android TV, but that may be up for change sometime later this year, so any external solution like a stick or RPi or something would also be up for consideration.

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[โ€“] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you are up for self hosting some cool open source softwareโ€ฆ

I use tubearchivist to automatically download new videos from my subscriptions and then use Jellyfin + the tubearchivist plugin to organize them.

Now all my you tube videos show up as organized, ad free shows on my personal streaming service!

[โ€“] y0shi@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This sounds like something Iโ€™d consider for my homelab. Do you mind elaborating more on the pipeline? How does it look like to prune watched content? Or you keep it forever?

[โ€“] fitgse@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I donโ€™t prune my YouTube content, so I donโ€™t have first hand experience, but tubearchivist supports auto deleting content after X time period after it has been watched.

I think if you are watching through Jellyfin rather than tubearchivist, youโ€™ll need to enable synchronization so Jellyfin can synchronize watched status back to Jellyfin.

[โ€“] y0shi@lemm.ee 2 points 1 week ago

Thanks for your inputs! Definitely will check it out, Iโ€™m tired of Youtube client ads and recommendations :โ€™)