Flatsonar

PsTube

by Prateek Sunal

Watch and download videos without ads

Broad permissions Verified creator GPL-3.0-only v3.1.2
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About

Ever wondered how the videos in the internet will look without ads, no more wondering just use PsTube.

Features:

  • Beautiful user interface
  • Lightweight and fast
  • No Login Required
  • Keep your liked videos and comments
  • Playlists support
  • Download videos, audios and thumbnails
  • Ads free forever
  • Free libre and open source (FLOSS)

Supported Platforms:

  • Youtube

Permissions

3 permissions weaken the sandbox. Flatsonar asks before installing.

  • X11 display: X11 lets apps read input and windows of other apps
    --socket=x11
  • access to unrecognised path 'xdg-download/pstube:create'
    --filesystem=xdg-download/pstube:create
  • network configuration
    --system-talk-name=org.freedesktop.NetworkManager
  • network
    --share=network
  • inter-process communication (needed for X11)
    --share=ipc
  • Wayland display
    --socket=wayland
  • audio
    --socket=pulseaudio
  • X11 display, only when Wayland is unavailable
    --socket=fallback-x11
  • GPU acceleration
    --device=dri
  • notifications
    --talk-name=org.freedesktop.Notifications

Who publishes this

The creator demonstrably controls this app id: Flathub verification, the hosting account owns the namespace, or a well-known file on their domain.

  • installs a prebuilt binary instead of building from source
    source:prebuilt
  • verified on Flathub: the developer proved they control this app id
    publisher:flathub

Maintenance

Recent activity on the upstream repository, or built and reviewed by Flathub.

No staleness signals: recent activity, or built and reviewed by Flathub.