GitHub - TeamPiped/Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
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Anyone who’s been using privacy-respecting frontends for some time will recognise Piped. A YouTube frontend with no ads, integrated SponsorBlock, return dislikes, and a customisable UI.

Piped also allows you to subscribe to as many channels as you want without ever logging into a Google account. You can export your subs list from YouTube and import them to Piped seamlessly.

If you’ve never heard of it, give it a glance at https://piped.video. For more instances, check here.

  • zxoEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    Yep, Piped uses the NewPipeExtractor to load videos, just like NewPipe. However, Piped runs it server side, and NewPipe runs it client side. YouTube likes to rate limit the big instances too, so all you have to do is use a smaller one like il.ax or piped.adminforge.de.

    • NoTime@lemmy.oneEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Doesn’t this make NewPipe better in that instance? If it’s client side you aren’t going to be rate limited.

      There is also a fork of NewPipe that integrates SponsorBlock (I don’t know if Piped has that).

      • zxoEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Piped has SponsorBlock. However, NewPipe is still just better, even if only for Android. I use it more often than Piped.

        Should really get aroundto sonating, though.

      • XpeeNEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        That youtube don’t know YOU scrape their website. in fact, they don’t even know you’re watching a video.

        • zxoEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          However, YouTube rate limits big Piped instances, so it’s better to use NewPipe or a small instance.

            • zxoEnglish
              2·
              1 year ago

              A couple days ago I found a service called Farside, apparently you can replace youtube.com with farside.link/piped to redirect to a random smaller Piped instance. It works pretty well for me, although sometimes I just use il.ax because I’m just lazy and don’t want to type that much.

              • XpeeNEnglish
                1·
                1 year ago

                That’s nice!

                Although, IDK how it works with piped, but because I’m using SearX for years and instances can log things if they want (and some did), I got used to briefly go over the service’s policy. I need to check if piped instances can log things before using random instances.

                • zxoEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  That’s fair, I never really have done that before or thought about doing that. Maybe I should. At just farside.link, they have a list of Piped instances that are part of the servuce at that moment. Maybe you could find instances to use there instead.