[HN Gopher] Piped: An privacy-friendly YouTube front end which i...
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Piped: An privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by
design
Author : emanuelpina
Score : 38 points
Date : 2021-07-17 22:02 UTC (57 minutes ago)
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| notafraudster wrote:
| I can't tell based on the GitHub description whether this is a
| website or some code you run locally. Like, I don't really know
| what a replacement front-end is. Is it a Chrome extension? I
| clicked the documentation and that didn't really answer anything
| for me. It's a Java backend, a Golang proxy, and a JS frontend?
| How do I actually use it?
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| I tried Googling "piped" and "piped youtube" and couldn't find
| any reference so I assume it's not a website. I could imagine
| using this, but not if I have to run it myself.
| cyounkins wrote:
| I think it is what is running at https://piped.kavin.rocks/
| sebmellen wrote:
| How is this different from Invidious [0]?
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| [0]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
| Reubend wrote:
| While I can easily understand people's aversion to tracking and
| advertisements, I think projects like this are really
| unsustainable. Storing videos, transcoding them, and then using
| large amounts of bandwidth to serve them isn't free; it's fair
| that YT is showing ads to make up for that.
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| I would add that if you hate advertisements, you can pay for
| YouTube Red or whatever they call it, and remove them. I think
| that's a good compromise: either you use it for free with ads, or
| you pay to remove them.
| andrewmcwatters wrote:
| I can appreciate this, but isn't one of YouTube's biggest selling
| points its recommendations?
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| I really _don 't_ want to see what is trending for YouTube's
| primary demographic, because I'm certainly not in it.
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| No, their recommendations to me are their worst selling point.
| The recommendations I get must be paid promotions cause they
| are nothing like the things I watch, and seem to be clickbait.
| andrewmcwatters wrote:
| Not sure what you're doing then, because my recommendations
| are great and never clickbait. My only problem is they're too
| much like what I've already been watching, rather than a
| little deviation from it.
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| Another part of it is that clickbait YouTubers continue to
| push clickbait and are associated with other clickbait. Just
| don't watch anything from them, and you tend to get less
| clickbait overall, because your recommendations are more
| likely to come from less trashy sources.
| encryptluks2 wrote:
| Minitube is open source and uses Qt, so it is extremely fast.
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