These frontends are very good but they have trouble displaying subtitles. You have to either choose one of the less used Invidious instances or go with Piped which has a weird bug where the subtitles aren’t properly displayed.
The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.
You can also use an Invidious/Piped instance and disable the comments there + avoid most of the tracking
These frontends are very good but they have trouble displaying subtitles. You have to either choose one of the less used Invidious instances or go with Piped which has a weird bug where the subtitles aren’t properly displayed.
Oh, yeah, I’ve also noticed some issues with captions. Do some less-used instances not have this problem?
The popular instances disable subtitles for some technical reason. I think there’s a rate limit and they avoid getting blocked by YouTube? There’s a github issue, maybe you’ll understand it better than I did. If you need subs you should to go to the less popular ones. Piped doesn’t have this problem.
Ah, that makes sense; YouTube certainly imposes rate limits on queries.
For those who need subs and like using terminals, youtube-dl (or one of the forks) is capable of downloading videos along with subtitles
The cool kids use yt-dlp now smh
hey, now, I did mention forks
I started using yt-dlp when youtube-dl stopped being maintained (although I think it’s being maintained again now)