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Comment by shzhdbi09gv8ioi | Hacker News Reader

I want to take this opportunity to pitch FreeTube, a open source youtube player that features:

  - Ad blocking
  - SponsorBlock
  - Subscriptions without account
  - Latest videos from your subscriptions
  - Use YouTube without Google tracking you using cookies and JavaScript
  - and more

making youtube a usable thing again

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube

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Also:

https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl

I’d also would like to add that in my case FreeTube has lower resource impact than YouTube in a browser. When I was watching YouTube videos in a browser, my CPU fan was running constantly which is not the case with FreeTube: the fan never starts when I use the app.

Probably your browser isn't using the gpu correctly (example if it was an ubuntu snap)

I tried both Firefox and Chrome/Edge under Windows 10 running on my MacBook Pro from 2019 — they have this issue. FreeTube doesn’t and I’m happy!

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