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FreeTube is an open-source and cross-platform desktop YouTube client built with privacy and user control as its core goals. Instead of relying on the official YouTube API, FreeTube uses its own extractor or community-friendly alternatives to fetch video data, which lets users watch YouTube content without advertisements and prevents Google from tracking them through cookies or JavaScript while browsing or viewing videos. Subscriptions, playlists, viewing history, and other user data are stored locally on the user’s machine rather than on remote servers, giving users full ownership over their content preferences and histories. ...

...The big advantage of this plugin is that you don't need to pre generate these preview images and store them separately, it is done seamlessly on the fly for you. The mp4 meta data is loaded and parsed and then corresponding key frames are downloaded using byte-range requests and decoded in the browser so you do not need to deal with it. All major desktop browsers are supported, mobile devices without Flash are not supported but you probably will not this functionality on those.