There are currently Loading users who have submitted Loading skip segments, which have saved a total of Loading years and Loading days of people’s lives.
Thats the real issue… all this commercials and adds taking time of our lives
“This fork parses the YouTube website directly and relies on the invidious instances only as a fallback”
Which means “all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you’re connected to and doesn’t use a middleman server in between. Therefore Google can still access information such as the users IP address”
source: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube#differences-to-newpipe
(recently I’m testing LibreTube as an alternative to NewPipe for android, not yet convinced though)
https://freetubeapp.io/ | AUR
For desktop I think this is the best option we’ve. (supports Invidious API)
Above everything else is Ublock Origin (even while installing Endeavour, first thing I did was install it on Firefox of the live distro), after that comes Universal Bypass, Bypass Paywalls Clean and h264ify. I use several others, but these are the most important.