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.

  • XpeeN
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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

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

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          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.

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            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.

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              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.