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Piped: The Youtube Experience You've Been Waiting For

github.com GitHub - TeamPiped/Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design. - GitHub - TeamPiped/Piped: An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

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.

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Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

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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.

Inb4 YouTube starts charging for API access… too soon? :(
- Piped (and similar projects like NewPipe, Invidious, and FreeTube) scrape YouTube instead of using an API; so just like Nitter, they won't be affected by a paid API.
  
  Ironically Nitter stopped working lately, since Twitter started requiring users to be logged in to read anything.
  
  Invidious does use a YouTube API. FreeTube uses Invidious, so probably same story there. I don't know about the others.
  I recently had a back and forth with one of invidious's developers. Judge for yourself.
- I'm sure they're watching the reddit situation very closely.

How does it compare to invidious? Worth switching?

I use it for about a year new. There are a few hiccups now and then, but you can just switch instance. That's why I recommend using Libredirect with it. If you have trouble with an instance just ping the instances in Libredirect and chose a new one. Backup your preferences from the old instance and import it to the new. Your settings and subscriptions are available again.

Excellent timing! With the rumblings of YT attacking anti-ad users and me using my new iPad Pro for watching stuff on the go, I’ve just started looking into side-loading.
Looks like I’ll be going with an app that utilizes this fw. Good share!

Having a lot of troubles with viewing content in any of the instances. Unfortunate since things are looking a lil’ bleak on YouTube as a whole.

Is this a similar concept to NewPipe?
- 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.
  
  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).
  
  What's the advantage of running this server side?

SmartTube for Google/Android TVs! So amazing. AdBlock and sponsorblock built in.
- How's the UI? I remember using it over a year ago and it felt really crusty compared to the Chromecast YouTube app
  
  Much better than before, I’d imagine. I haven’t used it for that long but I find it really smooth and nice to use, I haven’t had any issues, really.

Initial player response is not valid. Doesn’t inspire confidence that it is immediately broken.
- eh, i don't think it's fair to discount a youtube frontend for having a bug, especially not a frontend as new as this one. projects at this early a stage always have issues, & youtube frontends have to deal with the added bonus of google randomly rate-limiting & consistently trying to break them. youtube frontends are always going to have issues & need constant updates by nature, there's not much any of them can do about it
- main instance is being rate limited - basically Google likes to go 'fuck you' and kill the main instance for a few days. just switch to a smaller instance and you'll be good

is there any way for me to sign into my youtube account by way of piped so I can get my sub feed and stuff?
- You can export your Youtube subscription into a csv file that can be imported into Piped. If you enable cookies you don't even need to create an account and can still have a personal feed. That's the main reason for me to use it above Invidious

Hello there, I'm the author of Piped and would love to answer any questions you may have! 👋

How is it different from NewPipe?
- It uses NewPipe in the backend. Your requests will be proxied through the Piped server.

Piped js no longer working since YT started blocking Ad-blockers.
- What do you mean exactly? I just tried it and it and Piped seems to work just fine.

Do any of these frontends have a "watch later" function? What I really need is the "remove watched" button, since its just a playlist.

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