I would love to vote with my feet. How do I watch YouTube or Instagram content with VLC, or some other user friendly video player?
I would love to vote with my feet. How do I watch YouTube or Instagram content with VLC, or some other user friendly video player?
Look into LibRedirect and the projects it uses and also things like youtube-dl/yt-dlp.
https://libredirect.github.io/
https://libredirect.codeberg.page/
> A web extension that redirects YouTube, Instagram, Reddit, TikTok and other websites to alternative privacy-friendly frontends.
https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends
https://github.com/digitalblossom/alternative-frontends
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/frontends/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36146076
mpv understands URLs to these websites and uses yt-dlp to download them.
On KDE, I assigned an action to open some URLs with mpv, which means I can play then from the clipboard manager or the copy menu that is displayed when copying if it's enabled.