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YouTube

YouTube is a online video sharing platform.

Alternative Frontends

There are some alternative frontends available that also feature user managament including subscriptions. A self-hosting alternative is Invidious. For Android phones NewPipe is available in the F-Droid Appstore.

Downloading YouTube Videos

YouTube videos can be downloaded. Some alternative frontends feature downloading of videos or making them offline available. As a command line utility yt-dl can be used. Since yt-dl is stagnant its fork yt-dlp is recommended. Another alternative is streamrip. It should only be used for YouTube and other freely available sources like SoundCloud. MeTube and TubeArchivist are self-hostable web user interfaces for yt-dlp.

Automatically Skip Sponsorships

SponsorBlock is a browser expansion. It is used to skip sponsorships, paid and unpaid promotions and other labelled data on YouTube and Invidious.