Hello!
As you may (or may not) know, YouTube in Australia is now requiring ID (real-time video, government-issued ID) as a means of age verification. Without it, I am sadly unable to use SmartTube as previously - saved playlists, search, etc no longer work. Yes, I can do all that signed out…but not signed in. Won’t someone think of the children!
To date, Smarttube has been the best FOSS Youtube big screen replacement for Android TVs… but I’m not comfortable with Google having my photo my ID, so I wanted to create a workaround.
So I did.
SmartTube LOCAL is a (very small) fork of Smarttube beta 35.52, with the following desirable features -
- local profiles (so google doesn’t know need to know who you are / no login needed)
- per-profile subscriptions and playlists (stored locally)
- per-profile password/PIN protection (ditto)
- anonymous search and playback (ditto x2 )
- No fucking youtube log in or auth needed!
Every thing else is stock SmartTube (sponsor block, diff video formats etc). I just ripped out the Google bits.
If that sounds like something that might interest you, please feel free to grab it HERE.
I made it for myself (so, WYSIWYG), so am not accepting PRs etc. I will update it from time to time (as upstream adds useful enhancements or more likely…as YT fucks things up).
AI disclosure, per !selfhosted house-rules
- Design - Assisted
- Implementation - Pair
- Testing - Generated
- Documentation - Human
- Review - Pair
Does this allow viewing restricted videos? Usually those require Google logins to watch.
No, sorry it does not (unless they changed something upstream in 35.52 that allows for that).
This is simply to bypass having to log in in the first place / sync your playlists offline…but if the video is youtube restricted / needs OAuth, then this doesn’t bypass it.