mpsyt sends all data to a third-party

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JadedCtrl
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loldier
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Thanks. I didn't know mps-youtube was a thing.

And welcome back. Not sure if you ever left but it's been a long time.

chaosmonk

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youtube-viewer is an alternative. Like mps-youtube, it has a cli for searching YouTube and playing videos. It also has a graphical frontend, gtk-youtube-viewer.

https://github.com/trizen/youtube-viewer

It uses youtube-dl as its back-end for accessing the videos. youtube-dl sometimes executes proprietary JavaScript to access videos that require it. avideo is a fork that fixes this freedom issue. Installing avideo makes "youtube-dl" point to avideo, so youtube-viewer will instead use avideo as its back-end and no longer stream videos that require proprietary software to do so.

https://notabug.org/GPast/avideo

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SuperTramp83

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mpsyt has stopped working for me for some reason a couple of months ago :/

Just finished compiling yt-viewer, amazing, +1

GrevenGull
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How does one install gtk-youtube-viewer on Trisquel?

On the link you provided Ubuntu users are advised to run

$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8

but no further instructions on how to actually install the program.

Am I missing something?:/

chaosmonk

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$ sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nilarimogard/webupd8
$ sudo apt update
$ sudo apt install youtube-viewer

The 'youtube-viewer' package contains both youtube-viewer and gtk-youtube-viewer.