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Re: Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

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Post by manquer »

feanaro wrote: post #128
manquer wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Photos would be a one evening worth trivial task to back up to another system . Switching your phone from android or changing an email address with hundreds of contacts over many years is far more difficult and expensive. Google or Apple for that matter can make life difficult for a single person by banding their account , there is not a whole lot an average person can do to mitigate that risk.

This is why I use a separate throwaway account for Android and no longer use a Google account for anything else.

It doesn’t matter how many different accounts are used, google is known to ban related accounts as they see fit .

How they classify accounts being related is anyone’s guess .

Re: Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

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Post by edelans »

scosman wrote: post #11

Invidious is a good piped alternative for those starting to look at this space: https://invidious.io/ Yattee is a good front end app for both piped and invidious for Apple TV (and iOS and macOS but I prefer the browser on those platforms)

I have troubles understanding what's the value added by Yattee if it's only a "front end", while piped already claims it's a front end for YT. Can you help me get a clearer understanding ? I'm interested in ditching YT in favor of a privacy friendly / ad-free alternative.

Re: Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

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Post by bashZorina_09 »

edelans wrote: post #132
scosman wrote: post #11

Invidious is a good piped alternative for those starting to look at this space: https://invidious.io/ Yattee is a good front end app for both piped and invidious for Apple TV (and iOS and macOS but I prefer the browser on those platforms)

I have troubles understanding what's the value added by Yattee if it's only a "front end", while piped already claims it's a front end for YT. Can you help me get a clearer understanding ? I'm interested in ditching YT in favor of a privacy friendly / ad-free alternative.

Yattee aims to fit more in line as a native Apple subscription organizer and player application suite, with native window controls and tighter integrations, but it's mostly up to you to decide how'd you like your setup to be.

Ideally, you could self host only the Piped framework and connect this to Yattee without hosting the WebUI frontend, but without the latter, you cannot create a user for yourself to store subscriptions, and using the provided AIO Docker Images is overkill for self hosting as you are required to purchase and point to DNS records for this system (mostly to the benefit of publically hosting an instance of Piped). Invidious is more suited for this regard, but has issues with parsing some videos and their metadata (usually new uploads for a week, Vevo Music Videos etc.)

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Post by Gareth321 »

michaelt wrote: post #83
Gareth321 wrote: post #76

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They have disabled that x in my region. I can’t even turn them off temporarily anymore. They are probably rolling out the change in stages to see how much angry feedback they get and how many people cancel.

I've seen the same thing - it's really tawdry and desperate, isn't it? As I'm running an ad blocker anyway, I created a custom block rule to remove it.

I can't wait for the DMA to come into effect in the EU. I want to install a third party YouTube frontend with SponsorBlock and no shorts.

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Post by m_0x »

samridh90 wrote: post #75
m_0x wrote: post #74

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>the alternative is uninstalling YouTube I assume you're an iPhone user. In Android we don't even have that alternative (at least not out-of-the-box)

You can disable the YT app on Android. The effect is the same as uninstalling the app. YT links open in the browser, the app tile doesn't show up in the Apps menu. This is what I ended up doing to get over my YT Shorts addiction

I'll be damn. Thanks!

Re: Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

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Post by cubefox »

MediumOwl wrote: post #33
cubefox wrote: post #29

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Blocking ads is also a perfect example of a Kantian non-universalizable maxim.

I don't think Kant, or any reasonable philosopher, would consider blocking ads a moral dilemma, which is the precondition of a maxim.

A moral dilemma is not a precondition of a maxim.
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