So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google’s servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped’s source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I’m the author of Piped :P

  • TiffyBelle@feddit.ukEnglish
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    1 year ago

    That’s neat, but anyone using Piped on a regular basis should probably look into something like LibRedirect for their browser to redirect every YouTube link to Piped regardless of where they encounter them.

    • Redoomed@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      To add on to this tip, for anyone who is reluctant to or cannot install an extension on their browser, you can copy and paste the YouTube link into the search bar of your favorite Piped instance and hit Enter.

    • kavin@feddit.rocksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Piped can be more privacy friendly in a few cases, as you don’t need an account for subscriptions or playlists.

      Here are some differences to Invidious:

      • Subscriptions don’t necessarily require an account
      • Playlists don’t necessarily require an account
      • Piped supports Infinite scrolling
      • Piped supports Webm videos
      • Piped can stream videos from Odysee if the same video is available there.
      • Piped is a lot lighter on the server
      • Piped always proxies your traffic to Google’s servers (most Invidious servers don’t proxy videos to YouTube by default)
      • Piped has SponsorBlock integrated (DeArrow will be added soon)
      • Piped has ReturnYouTubeDislike support via RYD-Proxy
      • Piped can only be self-hosted on a server. Invidious on the other hand can work fine on local networks.
      • Piped is a lot easier to administer than Invidious as an instance operator.

      I’ll conclude by saying that I was once an Invidious user. I decided to write Piped at a time when Invidious was riddled with extremely odd bugs and performance issues. Some of these issues still persist to this day. I’ve always kept performance a top priority in Piped. I wanted to create a better alternative to YouTube than Invidious for my use case and threat model. I think I have succeeded in that :)