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[–] airikr@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

I used to use SmartTube before using yt-dlp and Jellyfin which was maybe 2 years ago.

Have SmartTube removed the direct connection youtube.com for subscriptions?

[–] bad_news@lemmy.billiam.net 6 points 8 hours ago

No, but as a result of behaving like the official client it is more robust than yt-dlp or Freetube when Google does crackdowns on third party clients. It's a tradeoff of privacy v robustness, but it still has no ads and sponsorblock. It's a way more acceptable option for normies and works well on GoogleTV (which is going to be spying on what you're watching and phoning that home to Google anyway).