Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
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HN comment orderInvidious 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)
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. 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…
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- Breakout years
- 2
- Total points
- 583
- Total comments
- 357
100+ points or 50+ comments
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reference only — not used in Hall rules or ranking
Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2021-07-17 | Piped: A privacy-friendly YouTube front end which is efficient by designFirst breakout | emanuelpina | 265 | 230 |
| 2023-05-10 | Piped – Privacy-friendly YouTube Frontend | ecliptik | 3 | 0 |
| 2023-10-17 | Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front endBest thread · Latest 20+ point return | e2le | 315 | 127 |