I am looking for a YouTube client that will give me the Apollo for reddit experience, any suggestions?
Thanks
My understanding is that Youtube’s APIs make this kind of impossible these days. I believe (but someone check me on it) that it’s because of the way that they want to:
- Serve dynamic advertising
- Ensure the algorithm and tracking is working at its full potential to keep you engaged
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Depending on how you use Youtube, their might be. Admittedly channel subscription is only a narrow slice of the Youtube experience, but when I started using RSS to subscribe to channels in my feed reader of choice and stopped visiting Youtube.com/app all together, my experience was 10x better.
Of course, channel subscription is the only slice of Youtube I care about, and I may be in the minority.
Some Safari extensions make it less awful. Baking Soda and Vinegar are the ones I use. Most of they help a bit.
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I have tried using RSS to subscribe and it works fine as a means to notify my of new videos being available. Except that to watch a video I still need to visit the page for the specific video. Ideally, I could just watch the video in my RSS reader without visiting youtube.com at all. Maybe some readers do this? After all I tried this with NewNewsWire which never loads the linked content but only the RSS content for any item.
I know there are save-for-later apps which can download videos, but I don’t want to watch it later, I want to watch it right now and then move on to the next item in my feed.
Ah yes, I suppose functionality for this must depend on your preferred feed reader. I use Reeder, and this is what I get:
I forget where I saw this trick: find a video you want to watch and replace “youtube” in the url with “yout-ube” (I use Keyboard Maestro for this.) viola!