NewPipe has it's own library NewPipeExtractor and does the work on your device, so IP bans aren't really a problem compared to a hosted instances where multiple clients access youtube through the IP of the instance.
https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor
Piped is an alternative to Invidious which uses the NewPipeExtractor library: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
But instances with high traffic or 'suspicious IP Adresses' can still be banned very quickly.
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Piped
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
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An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
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Piped
An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.
A list of public instances can be found at the documentation here.
The Problem
YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways. You give them a lot of data - ranging from ideas, music taste, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
By using Piped, you can freely watch and listen to content without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing.
Features:
User Features
No Ads
No Tracking
Lightweight on server and client
Infinite Scrolling
Light/Dark themes
Login
Feeds
Playlists
Integration with SponsorBlock
Integration with LBRY for streaming
Integration with Return YouTube Dislike via RYD-Proxy
4K support
No connections to Google's servers
Playing just audio
PWA support
Locally saved Preferences
Available in many languages, thanks to our translators
Embedded video support
No age restriction
Bypasses Geo restrictions if possible through a federated network
Technical Features
Multi-region load-balancing
Performant by design, designed to handle 1000s of users concurrently
Does not use official YouTube APIs
Uses NewPipeExtractor to extract information
Public JSON API
Federated protocol on Matrix to let instances collaborate with each other
Having trouble?
If you have any general questions regarding how Piped works or trouble setting up your own instance, please consult the following public chat rooms and documentation for help. Please use these platforms exclusively for such cases and do NOT open an issue.
Public Chat Rooms/Communities
You can join us via Matrix at #piped.
You can join us on Lemmy on the !piped@feddit.rocks community.
Self-Hosting
See https://docs.piped.video/docs/self-hosting/ for more details.
The source code of the documentation website is available at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Documentation.
Documentation
The documentation can be found at https://docs.piped.video (accessible via IPNS as well).
The API specification is located at https://github.com/TeamPiped/OpenAPI.
Extensions
To redirect all YouTube links to Piped, you are highly recommended to use either Piped-Redirects, Libredirect or Predirect.
Contributing
Translations
You can help by translating the project to a language you speak at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/piped/frontend/
Mirrors
Cloudflare Pages - cf.piped.video
Vercel - vc.piped.video
Render - re.piped.video
Fleek - fl.piped.video
DigitalOcean - do.piped.video
Netlify - nf.piped.video
Azure - az.piped.video
Forking, and contributing
Fork the repository on GitHub: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/fork
Create your feature branch: git checkout -b my-awesome-feature
Stage your files git add .
Commit your changes git commit -am 'Add awesome new feature'
Push to the branch git push origin my-awesome-feature
Create a new pull request: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/compare
Development Setup
pnpm install
Compiles and hot-reloads for development
pnpm dev
You can now make changes and view then in realtime!
Donations
Donations (to Kavin) can be made at:
bc1qhq8zjxmu405nvp37njj6zv3s980zg400pu9jfe (BTC)
0x1D77D4cfB1a947514241bcf19B1F04738495e2fD (ETH)
84wyyeGTrg4U1daJufi78bAFrBQgdRhmxJZvgYv8dAFeFVwkJaBEmw5C7fNniUM9n4jfrz3NeG32Agxtp7JNAcCUFPACfwA (XMR, aka Monero)
nano_1ngejzydncche4rdua3iebhj7sa95pw5geq4pb8phugtjf3tku933ktjb4pq (Nano)
XpzgouDTKCUuE8a92XqjX9b43gKL8oLihw (Dash)
FIAT donations can be made at:
https://liberapay.com/kavin (Initial author)
https://liberapay.com/Bnyro (Project maintainer)
Contributions in any other form are also welcomed.
Made with Piped
Mobile/desktop apps
LibreTube - Alternative frontend for YouTube for Android.
Yattee - Alternative frontend for YouTube for MacOS / iOS.
YTDLnis - Video and audio downloader for Android that uses Piped to update formats.
Pipeline - Alternative frontend for YouTube for Linux.
PlasmaTube - Alternative frontend for YouTube for Linux.
Harmony Music - YouTube Music alternative for Android/Windows/Debian, built with Flutter that supports piped linking for playlists.
Web apps
Hyperpipe - Alternative privacy respecting front-end for YouTube Music.
ytify - Complementary audio streaming frontend for YouTube & YouTube Music.
Piped-Material - Fork of Piped, focusing on better performance and a more usable design.
Musicale - Alternative frontend for YouTube Music with style.
Not Under Active Development
PsTube - Watch and download videos without ads on Android, Linux, Windows, iOS, and Mac OSX.
VibeYou - Privacy focused music player for Android supporting playback via Piped.
conduit - Alternative frontend for YouTube, with a modern player and watch together capabilities.
DeskVideo - Desktop styled, customizable alternative frontend for YouTube.
ReacTube - Privacy friendly & distraction free YouTube frontend.
vidyodl - Simple API to download videos from YouTube, using Piped.
Piped Addon for Kodi - Kodi plugin for Piped.
YourKit
YourKit has given an open source license for their profiler, greatly simplifying the profiling of Piped's performance.
YourKit supports open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler.
YourKit, LLC is the creator of YourKit Java Profiler
and YourKit .NET Profiler,
innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications.
Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
45 sourcesIt's questionable for how long that will be the case. The web frontends break often as YT changes, sometimes to intentionally prevent their usage. Piped has been showing the message "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot" for months now[1].
I've seen similar issues with yt-dlp, though they've been temporary so far, and the team is quicker to work around them. But it's only a matter of time until YT decides this is enough of a nuisance for them and blocks these completely. It would be trivial to do so, and workarounds could be very annoying to impossible.
[1]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/3658
In YouTube Premium is getting a big price hike internationallyMy browsers are heavily ad-blocked and privacy-tuned.
To the extent I still do, I mostly access YT via:
- Links posted elsewhere (mostly HN and the Fediverse)
- Alternate front-ends such as a Piped (<https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped>) or Invidious (<https://github.com/iv-org/invidious>) instance. Both of these are increasingly attacked by YT, and Invidious largely doesn't play locally, Piped seems to work more consistently. Search still works fine however.
- Copying the video URLs and playing them via a third-party, non-browser-based video/media app, usually mpv, though occasionally VLC or others. This might be full video or audio-only. (I often simply listen to videos, treating them as podcasts.)
For someone who's interacting with the site (rating videos, posting comments, posting content) you'll likely have to bend to YT's demands
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. Options here include specific browsers, browser profiles, or browser containers which are tuned to what it is YouTube wants, whilst you leave the rest of your browsing configured as you prefer it.
Or, you know, walk. Exit, voice, loyalty: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty>
Interesting. What are the alternative clients you recommend or use?
Edit: found this repo on github, never knew something like this existed. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
In Ask HN: Is there a way to hack YouTube landing page to see only certain topics?I found now that Piped includes duration in the RSS so might script around that. Wonder if Invidious could add that metadata too.
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
In Show HN: YouTube Shorts RedirectorYattee
https://github.com/yattee/yattee
it requires either public or private Piped or Invidious instaces [1][2].
1. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
2. https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
In Blocky – a DNS proxy and ad-blocker for the local networkAs an alternative YouTube Front-end, there is also Piped[0][1]
[0]: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
[1]: https://piped.video
In How Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)Casual reminder that Invidious[0] and Piped[1] exist. Farside[2] can automatically redirect you to a working instance, for example: https://farside.link/invidious
If you add a redirector plugin for your browser, you can add a capture for something like this:
https?://(.*?\.)?youtube.com/(.*)
And push it to something like this:
https://farside.link/invidious/$2
For example: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM
[0] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
[2] https://farside.link/
In Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videosAlso try Piped web interface: https://piped.video/
https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/
In My 2024 SetupNewPipe Extractor [1] can be used independently, e.g. the piped web front-end [2] also uses it.
[1] https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipeExtractor
[2] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
In NewPipe 0.26Forcing the playing of ads like this is really bad for all users and results in a viewer decline in the long term. Maybe you should look for/shift to alternatives like dailymotion or vimeo. Even projects like github.com/teampiped/piped (privacy friendly yt frontend) getting heavily throttled now. Shameless move.
In YouTube is trying to block InvidiousSometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped.
[0] https://invidious.io/
[1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
In Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)Like clockwork, each time an article like this one is published, individuals emerge to pressure others into watching advertisements with remarks like "poor trillion dollar corporation," label them as "entitled" for not wanting to invest time in continuous ads (bearing in mind that time only moves forward and can't be reclaimed), or assert that paying for a premium subscription is not a significant expense. It could be $1 for all I care.
Let us commence from the beginning. Perhaps not all of Hacker News' user base came online when the internet was still characterized by freedom and openness, and "content" was created to share information, whether accurate or not, or simply for entertainment. This state of affairs persisted for a few years during YouTube's early days, but the situation began to deteriorate around 2010. From 1997 to 2009, on
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e could argue that the internet was, to a large extent, a tolerable place to be.
The aggressive monetization and profiling tactics pursued by the mega-corporations that have tightly gripped the internet, driven by the unrelenting pursuit of endless year-over-year growth, have turned the internet into a breeding ground for scams and content designed to evoke manipulable emotional responses such as anger, sadness, and regret.
I am unwavering in my refusal to tolerate advertisements, whether in videos, music, or on websites, regardless of how vigorously these companies or their supporters attempt to persuade people to sink more of their time passively being bombarded with ads. Even engaging in debates with these individuals serves their purpose because, like Jehovah's Witnesses, their objective is to shift the argument and move the goalposts until they can declare victory, or gain the moral high ground defending the trillion-dollar corp.
For me, YouTube is a pastime, not a profession or a job. If beer money can be derived from it, that's wonderful. Nowadays, most YouTubers feature videos with non-skippable ads inserted by Google, run Patreon campaigns for direct support, sell merchandise, and include sponsored segments within their videos. I only realized the extent of this when I used SponsorBlock for a couple of years, and its API failed a few days ago.
Google does not require my financial support, and I have no intention of squandering my valuable time on their unskippable advertising. Nor do I wish to be profiled by them. If they are truly facing financial difficulties, they can reduce their relentless year-on-year growth. A well-established, consistently profitable company can support families without exploiting the user base. I feel no guilt in employing every means at my disposal to counteract their ceaseless efforts to make the internet a less enjoyable place: it's my device, and my rules.
The day Google demands payment for its services similar to Netflix, I will simply cease using it altogether. Until then, I remain indifferent to the opinions of internet strangers or corporate advocates who label me as "entitled"—their words hold no sway over me. I will continue to pursue my course of action and assist those who share the same stance. You are free to disable your ad-blockers and subscribe to the premium service if you so choose. I will not, and I will support (to me) worthy content creators on Patreon where applicable. Google shan't see nor earn no money from me.
Now, for those who find themselves entangled in this bog and wish to eliminate ads:
* Firefox, Chromium etc: µblock origin [0] + SponsorBlock [1]
* Safari: Invidious [2] and Piped [3]
* iOS (no jailbreak needed): uYouPlus [4], uYouExtra [5], Yattee [6]
* Android: ReVanced [7], GrayJay [8]
* Android TV / Shield / FireTV / FireStick: SmartTube [9]
* webOS (LG TV): dev mode + sideload [10]
My own setup: µblock origin on Firefox in Windows, Piped on macOS, uYouPlus on iOS, SmartTube on a FireStick for the LG C2. SponsorBlock is either directly and natively integrated or enabled separately where needed.
[0] https://redd.it/17j6ygs
[1] https://sponsor.ajay.app
[2] https://api.invidious.io
[3] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/wiki/Instances
[4] https://github.com/qnblackcat/uYouPlus
[5] https://github.com/arichorn/uYouPlusExtra
[6] https://github.com/yattee/yattee
[7] https://revanced.app
[8] https://grayjay.app
[9] https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
[10] https://github.com/webosbrew/dev-manager-desktop
Also not certain about details of how it works, but there are open source youtube frontends that manage to do this, while also adblocking:
- https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
- https://newpipe.net/
IIRC piped uses a network of proxies which is exposed as a service, so youtube is not even aware of what clients are watching.
In Grayjay – Follow Creators Not PlatformsPiped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end
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