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.

  • pastelsquirrel@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    can definitely recommend this, but just a head’s up - Google has a habit of hitting the main instance with rate limiting, which causes videos to not load until it gets fixed. but thankfully Piped has multiple instances, so if the main one is down, you can keep watching.

    • zxo
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      1 year ago

      I heard of a service called Farside that automatically reroutes links to a working Piped instance if you replace youtube.com with farside.link/piped.

      Since the big ones are rate limited, this helps me find smaller instances that aren’t rate limited yet.