FreeTube for trisquel
Dear community
I would like to install an adblocker on youtube or an app like Freetube.
If I understand well i should never install anything out of the internet (?) but is there an aquivalent in the repository? I didnt find anything...
Thank you very much in forward.
Cathie
There will be no add served if you use an invidious instance instead. You can search for videos using the invidious search field, or you can simply copy and paste the video reference.
For example, use https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=iZe0R5aVDoM instead of https://youtube.com/watch?v=iZe0R5aVDoM.
Ublock Origin is FOSS software available on Github. It is available in the Trisquel repository, but I had problems with the installer pulling obsolete versions.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/blob/master/README.md
FYI, Ublock Origin-Lite sometimes works better than Ublock Origin on Abrowser for blocking Youtube ads.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uBOL-home/blob/main/README.md
Using an invidious instance has the triple advantage of:
1. not being dependent on system updates to clean the mess after youtube broke your non-alphabet browser, all the work being done by the remote invidious instances;
2. not having to install anything out of repo;
3. enhancing privacy.
This is why I consider invidious as second best choice, second only to completely cutting off from google/alphabet/evil.
I have yt-dlp and mpv and watch videos straight from youtube with mpv. MPV will let you watch videos, but if you want to download one use yt-dlp.
I would like to install an adblocker on youtube or an app like Freetube.
Have you installed https://gnuzilla.gnu.org/extension.php?id=607454 (uBlock Origin) yet? It is probably the most famous ad blocker. However, like prospero, I use Invidious.
If I understand well i should never install anything out of the internet (?) but is there an aquivalent in the repository?
There is no DRM in Trisquel: you are free to install whatever you wish on your system. If you take software out of Trisquel's repository, you are on your own though! If you decide to so, then, for your own sake, you should check if it is free software. Notice that it may even be malware.
Flathub is a popular third-party repository that allows to some extent to filter out proprietary software (it includes free software to launch proprietary software: Trisquel would not have those in its repository!). To install Flatpak and setup Flathub's "floss" subset, execute in a terminal:
$ sudo apt install flatpak
$ flatpak remote-add --subset=floss flathub https://flathub.org/repo/flathub.flatpakrepo
A free graphical interface to youtube-dl may please you: https://flathub.org/en/apps/search?q=youtube-dl