Is there a Youtube frontend that doesn’t suck? Requirements:

• Disable all comments.
  
• Disable all public trending.
  
• Local-only
  
• Kid friendly

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org You don’t really expect my children to use this do you? 😅

@prologic@twtxt.net I really don’t think so, as even Googles attempts to filter out content inappropriate for children failed miserably. As far as I know, the only front-end that even comes anywhere close to your requirements is Invideous, but unless you’re willing to give up child filers and see some trending, you’d probably have to fork it and change quite a few things.

@thecanine@twtxt.net Yeah I’m not really seeing much out there that does what I need 😢

Thinking about that 🤔

@prologic@twtxt.net Invidious might satisfy these requirements: https://invidious.io

It’s worth noting, though, that Youtube is right now in the process of locking itself down and it might not be long before all third-party frontends stop working. Similar to what twitter and reddit are doing.

@prologic@twtxt.net I guess you could use VLC, it technically meets all your requirements, except it might be hard to use for kids…

@shreyan@twtxt.net I don’t think VLC is suitable here either. I’m seeing if Invidious can really do what I want, but I really need to figure out if I can block comments and trending from “the world”.

@jmjl@tilde.green Yeah I’ve seen some attempts at this, wasn’t able to get them to work though, but I think that’s probably arguably better in some ways 👌

Have you tried the browser plugin DF YouTube (Distraction Free) ? Both available for Firefox and chrome

Alternatively you can set up a RSS reader and follow the approved channels for them.

Piped ?