The spellchecker by default does (as part of some initiative regarding improving spellcheck or whatever). There is a setting to disable it and another setting to disable telemetry. Disabling both of these effectively makes the keyboard offline apart from things like Stickers and Emojikitchen.

You can also block internet access to GBoard and it’ll work just fine.

If you don’t hard-depend on GBoard, you may wanna look into Florisboard and Helium314’s OpenBoard Fork

…three minutes!!!

Talk about dedication, I love that

Based threads.net block

lol that sounds like an existing old-YouTube bug that ReVanced also suffered of a while ago.

You’d wanna use an up-to-date version, but that’s hard on such an old android version

I’d suggest - even tho it isn’t 1:1 the same - that you export your subscriptions from Google and import them either into LibreTube (closer to the official YT app) or NewPipe.

Because LibreTube uses the (awesome) Piped Project to load videos and info, you can also sync data using it and your favourite piped instance. (piped.video, piped.smnz.de, piped.adminforge.de are personal recommendations)

Web

For the web, there is Piped (github.com/teampiped/piped) and Invidious (invidious.io)

NOTE: Only Piped proxies your videos, which means invidious allows connections directly to Google to load the video.

Android

On Android, there’s NewPipe and LibreTube which are well known by now.

NOTE: LibreTube uses Piped to preserve privacy and (somewhat) anonymity when watching, thus you’ll need to select some piped instance with it.

iOS

On iOS, there’s the web frontends and Yattee (github.com/yattee/yattee).

NOTE: Yattee is on the AppStore, but without any sources/instances by default. Look for “instances” in the settings and add a Piped API URL, like https://pipedapi.kavin.rocks to watch videos from YouTube with Piped+Yattee.

Desktop

On Desktop, there is all the web clients as well as FreeTube (freetubeapp.io).

NOTE: FreeTube has an option to proxy everything or just the videos through Invidious to preserve privacy. It is recommended to enable this.

You lose:

• Your existing YouTube account, which can only be manually imported (subscriptions)
• Account-Based/Algorithmic Homescreen recommendations
• Some higher resolutions (e.g 4K) (very dependant on instance, I don’t have a list of instances with their max resolutions)
• The UI will be somewhat different, but not necessarily hard to navigate
• probably more random stuff idk

It doesn’t use the APIs at all, which is also why Google can’t Cease & Desist them for not complying with API terms

Absolutely agreed, I would love for peertube to take off

The extension menu has “redirect” and “back to original” buttons (or something similar, can’t check cuz I’m on mobile rn)

You could use this to visit the homepage and then let new tabs/videos redirect

No, but subscriptions can be imported manually.

The point is to not load tracking tech YouTube ships with as well as staying relatively anonymous.