Piped

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An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend that is efficient by design.

https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

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Can someone ELI5 for me how Piped works? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by illi@lemm.ee to c/piped@feddit.rocks

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So I mostly transitioned to Piped and ever since I was wondering how it works. I read up on it and while I get what it says, I still don't feel like I really understand...

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[–] kouichi@ani.social 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

From a user's perspective, Piped does basically 2 things:

It acts as a middleman between you and YouTube, so YouTube can't trace your activities back to you.
It gives you its own front-end free of ads and trackers.

[–] illi@lemm.ee 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah, I understood the high level overview, but wanted more detail on the how. Still helpful though, thanks!