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.

  • LibertyLizard
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    1 year ago

    Initial player response is not valid. Doesn’t inspire confidence that it is immediately broken.

    • chris.@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      eh, i don’t think it’s fair to discount a youtube frontend for having a bug, especially not a frontend as new as this one. projects at this early a stage always have issues, & youtube frontends have to deal with the added bonus of google randomly rate-limiting & consistently trying to break them. youtube frontends are always going to have issues & need constant updates by nature, there’s not much any of them can do about it

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        1 year ago

        It happened on every video I clicked so as far as I could tell it just doesn’t work. Maybe that’s technically a bug but for me it means that’s the end of my experience with it.

    • pastelsquirrel@beehaw.org
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      1 year ago

      main instance is being rate limited - basically Google likes to go ‘fuck you’ and kill the main instance for a few days. just switch to a smaller instance and you’ll be good