Schwim Dandy

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Cake day: June 15th, 2025

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  • A ton of developers have tried it but not only are they failing at acting like these apps, the apps are also forcing logins more and more often for more content. So even if you faked the app, you still wouldn’t have access to that content unless you also logged in. Just like if you opened tick tock it’s going to force you to log in. If you open Facebook, it will eventually force you to log in a YouTube hides a lot of videos behind a login.

    Also, as more and more countries adopt the age verification farce, all of these apps are just going to keep getting more and more restrictive as to when they will finally show you a video.

    It really is unfortunate as I would love something like this as well because my entire family shares content fear these platforms and if I want to see it and then talk to my wife about it or whatever, I have to log in on that platform to see that content.


  • No, I don’t think you’re going to find a solution that will satisfy your need. Google, Meta, tiktok, etc. all have the ability to gatekeep their content. Just as an example, when Youtube locks you out of viewing a video unless you are on their platform and sometimes, also logged in.

    They are as big as they are for a reason and choosing not to use them will result in truly not using them instead of using them on your terms.

    Regarding frontends like newpipe, Freetube, etc., those are all trying to get by on embed links, which are still controlled by Google and they fail at displaying a video more often than not with the never-ending changes that are made upstream.

















  • I moved over to Librewolf last night (except on android) due to this issue. I’m not even anti-AI, I just don’t care for the current mentality to put it into everything and using it as the entirety of your marketing schtick. I don’t need an AI web browser. I need a web browser that can navigate something like chatgpt’s web interface if I want it to.

    Librewolf has stated their intention to strip all ai elements from their fork of Firefox and that keeps me off of a chromium browser so I chalk this up as my personal best-case scenario.