{"id":40875,"date":"2023-10-24T15:28:11","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T19:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=40875"},"modified":"2023-10-24T15:28:11","modified_gmt":"2023-10-24T19:28:11","slug":"invidious-and-freetube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/24\/invidious-and-freetube\/","title":{"rendered":"Invidious and FreeTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/invidious.io\/\">Invidious<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37900458\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/invidious.io\/\"><p>Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Invidious protects you from the prying eyes of Google. It won&rsquo;t track you either!<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>Invidious allows you to subscribe to channels and create playlists, without needing a YouTube account.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/FreeTubeApp\/FreeTube\">FreeTube<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=37897916\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/FreeTubeApp\/FreeTube\"><p>FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. Use YouTube without advertisements and prevent Google from tracking you with their cookies and JavaScript. Available for Windows, Mac &amp; Linux thanks to Electron.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mendel5\/alternative-front-ends\">mendel5<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mendel5\/alternative-front-ends\">\n<p>Overview of alternative open source front-ends for popular internet platforms (e.g. YouTube, Twitter, etc.)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/24\/link-unshortener-updates\/\">Link Unshortener Updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/03\/twitter-now-requires-logging-in\/\">Twitter Now Requires Logging In<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/12\/youtube-tries-to-shut-down-invidious\/\">YouTube Tries to Shut Down Invidious<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Invidious (Hacker News): Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.[&#8230;]Invidious protects you from the prying eyes of Google. It won&rsquo;t track you either![&#8230;]Invidious allows you to subscribe to channels and create playlists, without needing a YouTube account. FreeTube (Hacker News): FreeTube is an open source desktop YouTube player built with privacy in mind. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-10-24T19:28:14Z","apple_news_api_id":"e6512130-d19d-45cb-a723-4039a3b4d59c","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-10-24T19:28:14Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A5lEhMNGdRcunI0A5o7TVnA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2483,2482,32,2385,74,355,96,555],"class_list":["post-40875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-freetube","tag-invidious","tag-macapp","tag-macos-14-sonoma","tag-opensource","tag-privacy","tag-web","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40876,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40875\/revisions\/40876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}