What does HackerNews think of Piped?
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
I don't know what they consider to be "significant prior watch history". I have mine paused for nearly 4 years, and have spent a lot of time removing videos from my watch history to improve their recommendations. I've talked about it on HN before [1].
I finally got around to subscribing to YouTube Premium, and they already burned me once by raising prices. If I'm affected by this, I'm canceling it and donating the equivalent between NewPipe [2] and Piped.video [3]
I truly despise this company. No matter what you do or how much money you give them, you are always the product to Google - never the customer.
So basically it is a way to use YouTube with a proxy server in between. Quoting directly from LibreTube (an Android app based on Piped) -
> With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you're connected to, which doesn't use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user's IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.
> LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.
> Apart from that, Piped allows syncing your subscriptions between LibreTube and Piped, which can be used on desktop too.
You can also self host it or use an instance like https://piped.video/
[0] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped [1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor [2] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe
It's been on my to-do list for a while now.
Original author is the same as the equally excellent NewPiped mobile app.
[0] https://invidious.io/ [1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
[0]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped [1]: https://newpipe.net/
I have made rimgu[0] for imgur. There are a small number of edge-cases (for example the stackexchange subsite) it doesn't handle yet but otherwise I find it works great.
On a similar note, I find Piped[1] superior to any of the other alternatives for YT I tried so far, including invidious.
[0]: https://codeberg.org/3np/rimgu
[1]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
EDIT: Looks like there's actually a public Piped instance linked from the repo now!
IME Piped recently works a lot more reliably with high-res videos compared to Invidious. If you ever have "media not available" etc. Both generally work fine with embeds, so you can use link rewriters in other alt-frontends (nitter/teddit/searx/etc) to have proxied embeds.
Piped can also be substituted for Invidious in Privacy Redirect.