FreeTube is a YouTube client for Windows (10 and later), Mac (macOS 11 and later), 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.
What's new in 0.25.3
Summary This hotfix release addresses several issues affecting video playback and comment loading, while also updating comment handling for YouTube’s threaded replies. Note This release should reduce the chances of seeing the Could not find ytcfg in the HTML page error. However, as long as YouTube requires us to use information from the HTML page, there will always be a chance that YouTube will return a CAPTCHA page instead. Fixes - Fallback to extracting the potoken challenge data and config from the YouTube homepage by @absidue in #9637 - Fix legacy as default format but unavailable won't fallback to other formats by @PikachuEXE in #9644 - Fix: Duplicates when click spam loading elements in comments by @Shadorc in #9412 - Fix SABR redirect handling not updating SABR URL which is actually used by @PikachuEXE in #9689 Changes - Updated comments to handle threaded replies, allowing comments to load normally again by @CL-Jeremy in #9555 Full Changelog: v0.25.2-beta...v0.25.3-beta
