Other than a couple of neat features, basically it allows you to have the youtube account features, without having an account.

Locally you tell him what channels you care for, and it fetches your homepage for you, without all the strings attached to google doing that within your account and, hence, knowing exactly what kind of person you are.

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The main reason one would consider freetube or other similar alternative is for privacy. If that doesn’t matter to you then just stick to the website.

Are you, like, manually writing down on paper the 0s and 1s of the software you use? Personally it takes me 20 seconds top to “download a whole program”.

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