Seems like Piped and Invidious are both on their last legs. Public instances on both services are pretty iffy, they go down fairly often now. Freetube works well on desktop but no real way to sync subscriptions and watch history to a phone. Self-hosting Piped/Invidious might be the solution but I don’t know if it’s worth the upkeep when YouTube is actively fighting against it.
I see zero purpose of alternative front ends. I only like them on mobile because they provide a better experience. They get your IP regardless, and you can eliminate pretty much all the tracking with aggressive adblocking, so it’d be quite similar to a privacy front end.
If you proxy video hrough Invidious - Youtube won’t get your IP
youtube has your ip.
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Totally diagree with this… I hate the YouTube UI. I don’t want to login there. But when I don’t do that and try to prevent tracking, they show me popups about privacy and cookies all the time. You can prevent that Google gets your IP with Invidious BTW. But even if you don’t… It’s still a difference whether Google links a watched video with an IP or with a person. For me, Invidious made a huge difference.
I like the alt front ends so I can subscribe without a google account.
Possible with RSS
Ok, but why using RSS over a third party site when you can instead use a third party frontend?
I’m pretty sure you can still use https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= to get an RSS feed.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
You seem to be answering that yourself. Because RSS involves no third parties at all.
I don’t know that service that was mentioned, but this sounds like a third party getting data from Youtube and offering it via RSS, because Youtube itself does not offer RSS. So, RSSBox is the3rd party in this case…
Incorrect. Youtube does offer RSS, that is the point.
Above, you linked a page that said “This website lets you subscribe to RSS feeds for websites that do not support RSS themselves” to show that RSS works and now you are telling me that you don’t even need that service. Are you intentionally trying to confuse me? 😄😉
Instead of wasting your time in this conversation you might have tried just clicking on the link to see what it was. It’s simply a service where you search the platforms for a user and it spits out the RSS feed either as provided by the platform itself - Youtube - or by some libre mirror.
I don’t know when it started, but I had to start using Freetube after YouTube started clamping down on ad blockers.