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Is there any working frontend for Youtube?

Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial] June 8, 2026
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Yeah so YouTube is now putting a lot of the cache preload on the server-side, which breaks or limits all frontends like Newpipe or Freetube. If you keep your subscription under 125 then you should be able to load subscriptions through RSS mode. The SABR cache seems to randomly force-reload videos to 360p due to the server thinking the network is super slow. This seems to happen less without a VPN, but I’m not a fan of ditching that for a YouTube video. Basically, YouTube seems to be testing some new server cache system for a few months now, but there’s no real info from Google yet. It sure is a way to kick people off frontends I guess.

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