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# YouTube
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[YouTube](https://youtube.com) is a online video sharing platform.
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## Alternative Frontends
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There are some alternative frontends available that also feature user managament
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including subscriptions.
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A self-hosting alternative is [Invidious](/wiki/invidious.md).
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For Android phones [NewPipe](https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe) is
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available in the [F-Droid Appstore](/wiki/android/f-droid.md).
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## Downloading YouTube Videos
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YouTube videos can be downloaded.
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Some [alternative frontends](#alternative-frontends) feature downloading of
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videos or making them offline available.
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As a command line utility [yt-dl](https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl) can be
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used.
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Since yt-dl is stagnant its fork [yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp) is
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recommended.
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[MeTube](/wiki/metube.md) is a self-hostable web user interface for
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[yt-dlp](https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp).
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## Automatically Skip Sponsorships
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[SponsorBlock](https://github.com/ajayyy/SponsorBlock) is a [browser](/wiki/web_browser.md)
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expansion.
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It is used to skip sponsorships, paid and unpaid promotions and other labelled data on YouTube and
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[Invidious](/wiki/invidious.md).
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