Basically Most videos don’t load on first try for me on Freetube. so I have to go back and forth to reload the video hoping this time it will load? they have removed the reload button, and the team are just closing issues on GitHub that demand reinstating the reload button. Plus comments have stopping loading as well.
Invidious doesn’t work half of the times. and piped is dead.
What do you recommend using on desktop. or is paying for youtube Red the only option left?


How about an android emulator running NewPipe?
I wouldn’t have thought of that but it is too cumbersome of a workaround, and running and android vm makes my laptop run hot
Does NewPipe have working HD? My Tubular fork only loads 360p and doesn’t show channel details
Tubular is dead :(
https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular https://github.com/polymorphicshade/Tubular/issues/345
NewPipe only has that issue when you arent up to date as of a couple of months ago. I think it has to do with YouTubes most recent bs
The video I’m watching now says it’s playing at 1080p. Whether it is, I can’t tell.