Freetube Broke, So I Fixed It Myself... AND YOU CAN TOO
Hai. I'm Cat. You may know me from my posts on Youtube frontends such as Freetube, Invidious, and Pipepipe. Unfortunately, because of Youtube's bullshit updates, these apps will sometimes fail to load videos. The app I've noticed most failures with is Freetube.
I would usually twiddle my thumbs waiting for an update but now I'd rather get out my comfort zone to achieve a more permanent solution: self-hosting Invidious to use its API within Freetube.
After several hours of figuring shit out, I created a tutorial that should hopefully be easy to follow........ and yknow. work.
Yeah, sadly I only know how this works on Windows 11. That's all I've got, man. If you're using Linux, this tutorial here + web searching will hopefully achieve the same result.