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Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

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

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Post by anonym29 »

ruune wrote: post #19
sheepscreek wrote: post #17

I am a paying YT Premium customer and am honestly deeply frustrated by their child proofing controls. The worst is having a “Guest” mode on the TV app that you can’t turn off. It lets anybody completely bypass all restrictions. There is an open ticket on this dating back many years. Their best response to date has been ~ “it can’t be done - will share feedback with the team.” The sudden interest/surge in custom YT fr…

Web scraping [0] and grabbing the googlevideo stream from there [1], at least in the case of invidious [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invidious [1] https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#q-what-data-is-shared-with-yo...

Piped uses a proxy server so that no direct connection is made between the client and Google's servers, for added privacy from Google.

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Post by rabf »

yard2010 wrote: post #16

I have to say that the crypto space is doomed and nobody cares about decentralization, but the technology behind it enables doing exactly this: 1 backend and many different clients. IMO this is the future - breaking monopolies with separation of powers a la John Locke

https://help.odysee.tv/category-basics/whatisodysee/

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

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Post by doodlesdev »

sheepscreek wrote: post #17

I am a paying YT Premium customer and am honestly deeply frustrated by their child proofing controls. The worst is having a “Guest” mode on the TV app that you can’t turn off. It lets anybody completely bypass all restrictions. There is an open ticket on this dating back many years. Their best response to date has been ~ “it can’t be done - will share feedback with the team.” The sudden interest/surge in custom YT fr…

You could start by taking a look at the base library that powers NewPipe and Piped called NewPipe Extractor [0][1]. It can extract the information you need from YouTube without using the API, I believe that includes access to the video streams themselves. Otherwise you could try and use Invidious through the developer API [2] although I must admit I have zero idea how good it is.

[0]: https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor

[1]: https://teamnewpipe.github.io/documentation/

[2]: https://docs.invidious.io/api/

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

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Post by judge2020 »

wppick wrote: post #39

I find that YouTubes recommendation algorithm is not great. It would be a cool feature to be able to something like assume a persona and have recommended videos that similar like minded people watched. There's effectively infinite videos on YouTube but it's common I can go there looking for a video and find nothing interesting to watch. In some cases it's pushing recommendations for videos all similar to a recent vid…

> In some cases it's pushing recommendations for videos all similar to a recent video I had watched, but I'm no longer interested in that topic

If it has already showed you your organic recommendations multiple times before, it knows it needs to grab onto something new to try to get you to watching. Since you watched that recent video, that's the best chance it has of getting you to click anything since you've shown direct interest in it. You can click 'not interested' on these and it's pretty good at following that instruction, at least unless your next video is another video similar to it.

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

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Post by vxNsr »

cornfutes wrote: post #15

I was just thinking yesterday that there needs to be a 3rd party tool that reintroduces the thumbs down button.

there are a few projects that do this, but it doesn't really matter... not enough people use any single one and most new videos will never really show accurate info

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Post by sampli »

cbuq wrote: post #48

Aren't these services (and even adblockers) against YouTube's TOS? As much as I don't like ads as the next person, my Google account is one thing I don't want to risk. Anybody hear of this happening or think it's a possibility down the road?

How would your Google account be linked to piped usage?

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Post by mkhopper »

cbuq wrote: post #48

Aren't these services (and even adblockers) against YouTube's TOS? As much as I don't like ads as the next person, my Google account is one thing I don't want to risk. Anybody hear of this happening or think it's a possibility down the road?

I use the SmartTube frontend on my TV and do not have it linked to my Google account for exactly this reason. I just leave it set as the default user. Yes, it's a bit of a pain if I find a channel that I would like to subscribe to, that I need to do it twice (once on the TV, once in YT on my phone), but that's a very hurdle.
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