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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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[–] variouslegumes@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the advantage of running this server side?

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] zxo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] XpeeN@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] zxo@sopuli.xyz 1 points 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.