PopSci: “YouTube’s website is a rabbit hole, designed to keep you watching as long as possible. Freetube won’t cure your addiction, but it does let you take control over your relationship with the video streaming site.  The application allows you to take total control of what does and doesn’t show up on the screen. Don’t like comments? Turn them off. Don’t want to see recommended videos, or for the next video to automatically play? You can disable that too. You can replace attention-grabbing thumbnails with more generic ones, replace ALL CAPS HEADLINES with title case ones, and generally just turn YouTube into a tool you can use to find and watch videos instead of a trap for capturing as much of your attention as possible. And there are privacy benefits too. With Freetube your watch history is stored only on your computer, not YouTube’s servers. This is an application that puts you back in control of your video watching habit.”