It seems like the main benefit of such frontends is the lack of trackers and fingerprinting, but what if the browser, like Firefox, already did that with UBlock Origin and fingerprinting protection?

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    For me I can’t go back to the normal YouTube client. I use freetube on pc and tubular on mobile (EDIT 2: both tubular and newpipe work on mobile now). My biggest thing I love is not getting recommendations from YouTube. I have it set to only pull people I am subscribed to. This has saved me so much time from just scrolling and being like “I could watch that”. Not exactly privacy related but it has saved me countless hours watching something.

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      tubular on mobile (broken right now so is newpipe).

      NewPipe is updated and working again, but not yet Tubular

      EDIT: I just got a Tubular update that fixes it

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        Oh great thanks for letting me know. I checked about two days ago.