Privacy respecting alternative to Youtube (feddit.nl)

submitted 1 year ago by VitabytesDev@feddit.nl to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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I need a more privacy-oriented alternative to Youtube. I have try Odysee, which open-source but it has to do with tokens and that seems to me like crypto, which I don't like. I have heard about Newpipe but this only for Android. Can you recommend me one that is also for the web and optionally open-source?

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[-] DARbarian@artemis.camp 9 points 1 year ago

piped.kavin.rocks or Freetube on PC, Yattee on iOS, Libretube on Android, SmartTubeNext on TV

[-] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I’m a big fan of Piped / Yattee, but I had a lot of problems recently, because most videos won’t load. Also privacy redirectors that redirect YouTube URLs to Piped don’t work anymore, because the video won’t load. So I had to watch a couple of videos directly on YT recently.

Possible that YT pushed some API changes or such, which makes it difficult for the privacy proxies to work. Don’t know, but IMHO it used to work much better in the past.

[-] DARbarian@artemis.camp 1 points 1 year ago

What instances are you using? Because I have little to no issue with my self-hosted one.

[-] Mugmoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

If it's anything like LibReddit, then public instances are slowly breaking due to the hgh API calls. Private ones seem to make a small enough amount that they go under their radar.

[-] TheProtagonist@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I guess I use the default one (piped.kavin.rocks).

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