Free and open-source YouTube clients w/ no ads

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LibreTube - uses Piped as video source by default. Subscriptions and playlists can be created, all without actually interacting with YouTube.

Clipious - uses Invidious as the video source. Also allows for subscribing and accounts. Lesser known client

NewPipe - Gets the source directly from YT. Allows for subscribing and creating playlists

Additionally, there's also ReVanced that lets you patch the regular YT app to include useful features.

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Grayjay is propertiary. Just giving a heads up

I thought it was FOSS? Here their GitHub. I'm not an expert in licenses and all that, but it looks like it has even been forked. You can't even see proprietary, let alone fork it. I could be wrong, though. Correct me if I'm wrong, please.

It has a joke of a license that certainly isn't free. It onky alpows you to see the source code aka it ia "source availible" not opwn source nor free

I see. I think Louis Rossmann (he works for Futo, the company behind this app and other FOSS apps) said in a video that they'll eventually open source it? I don't remember exactly.