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i was trying to find a way to avoid having to sign in to YouTube for the age restricted videos and saw this:

https://freetubeapp.io/

https://github.com/FreeTubeApp

What is FreeTube?

FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows, Mac, and Linux built around using YouTube more privately. You can enjoy your favorite content and creators without your habits being tracked. All of your user data is stored locally and never sent or published to the internet. FreeTube grabs data by scraping the information it needs (with either local methods or by optionally utilizing the Invidious API). With many features similar to YouTube, FreeTube has become one of the best methods to watch YouTube privately on desktop.

zip version available that they call portable but it puts a folder at AppData>Roaming

only other drawback i see is it doesn't allow downloading for now

available on Windows, Mac, Ubuntu, Fedora and others

overall a nice program

Some people -- myself included -- would like to be aware that Freetube is Electron-based, so unsurprisingly not really portable...

• Downgraded Electron version from 14.0 to 13.5.1

Midas wrote: ↑Fri Nov 05, 2021 5:03 am Some people -- myself included -- would like to be aware that Freetube is Electron-based, so unsurprisingly not really portable...

• Downgraded Electron version from 14.0 to 13.5.1

@ github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/discussions/1835

so the designer won't be able to fix the portability issue?

i still find the program useful and they're talking about adding a tab for downloads

bitcoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:29 am so the designer won't be able to fix the portability issue?

It's possible and there are programs that are Electron-based and portable. I've seen a few efforts around this issue to move the platform that direction. But overall, the framework is much more focused on speed of development and platform portability (easily deploy to Mac/Win/Linux) than settings portability.

bitcoin wrote: ↑Sat Nov 06, 2021 10:29 am i still find the program useful and they're talking about adding a tab for downloads

You're always welcome to discuss useful programs in the "not portable" thread, especially ones you're using often. I've gone on about several non-portable tools at length over the years. We just can't add it to the live database.

Incidentally, there's an issue open regarding Freetube's portability at https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/issues/746.

Apparently -- I haven't tested this -- you can now direct settings to program folder with the "--user-data-dir=..." CLI parameter.

Freetube's latest version is v0.18.0 Beta released 2022-11-02 (changes and downloads at https://github.com/FreeTubeApp/FreeTube/releases)

Version 0.20.0 Beta is out. Electron app that becomes portable with the command --user-data-dir=".\data"
How to apply it:

• Download the zip or 7z package and unzip it to a folder of your choice

• In that folder create a shortcut of FreeTube.exe

• Right click on the shortcut and choose Properties

• At the end of your "Target:" line add the command-line switch and hit Apply. It's gonna look like: C:\Users\user\Desktop\FreeTube\FreeTube.exe --user-data-dir=".\data"

• Always start the program from this shortcut. Pin it to taskbar, quick launch or whatever

Not stealth - HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\freetube
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