Sign-in? Not really
You can export your subscriptions to new pipe easily enough
this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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Is there anyway I can transfer my watched history too?
Watch history doesn't even work on the official YouTube app so why even bother exporting it?
What am I missing here? My watch history works properly on the official YouTube app.
Just checked and it worked fine so
Not FOSS but F.
Firefox + ublock works really good on YouTube
Aren't both of those FOSS?
Yes they are, but you're still using and logging into the google owned platform which isn't.
Newpipe or libretube are completely independent of logging into youtube to maintain a subscription list for example.
Ah, gotcha. I really don't use YouTube enough to think about subscriptions etc.
I've been using ReVanced ever since Vanced got taken down. I love it. It's got ad blocking, options to skip sponsor sections in videos, background playback, and more. Basically every feature that YouTube would have had if it wasn't evil.
LibreTube is probably what you want. There's no g**gle sign-in in third party yt clients though (vanced only has it bc it patches the official client) so you'll need to export and import your subscriptions https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
Adding to this user's response - LibreTube has it's own account system to keep your data in sync across the mobile app, website and other Piped-based platforms.
Newpipe on the other hand has no such accounts system
Doesn't exist. Closest thing is to use an open source web browser and run YouTube as a PWA... But I think they deleted the PWA because it doesn't work for me.
The PWA still exists
On a Android browser?
Firefox doesn't support PWA's so you'll have to use something Chromium based, but yes. They have a manifest file so as long as your browser supports it you should be fine.
Honestly smarttube.app has changed my households life
Sign in isn't Foss but you can use third party clients (none of them support sign in)
I used hermit to create a lite app of piped.video. I have transferred all my subs from youtube.
Wait, is hermit open source?
Native Alpha is an opensource alternative.
Not as far as I know.
Libretube is somewhat closer to YT client itself,compared to NewPipe, and can also use direct YouTube URLs instead of piped ones,but obviously try to stick with piped.
I use both,depending on mood and both work great most of the time.