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Please suggest a Private YouTube client for Android. If available on Fdroid, even better.

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[–] kami@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 4 days ago

NewPipe, the one and only, the alpha and the omega.

Praise be to NewPipe!

[–] igilq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

grayjay. has history, can sync between paired devices (without accound) and supports many video sites too

[–] xrun_detected@programming.dev 10 points 4 days ago
[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago

Newpipe already exists

[–] viral.vegabond@piefed.social 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] pir8t0x@ani.social 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

There's one by the name of "FreeTube" on IzzyonDroid repo on fdroid

[–] kolorafa@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] Goodlucksil@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

FUTO has made questionable actions, but it's still a good idea.

[–] lka1988@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

FUTO has made questionable actions

Such as?

[–] Fraqual@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

PipePipe is what I'm using. Should be on fdroid too.

[–] Lowleekun@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago

I use Noutube and I like it so far.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

LibreTube. Works standalone and with a piped server, and is steadily accumulating features and improvements.

[–] brokenwing@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] 30p87@feddit.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

With instances with low load or very good load/traffic distribution, yes. I've my own instance, and (apart from frontend issues) it always works perfectly fine.