Disenshittify

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Let's find alternatives and workarounds to enshittification.

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Piped is a privacy friendly alternative YouTube frontend (piped.video)

submitted 5 months ago by cloudless@lemmy.cafe to c/disenshittify@lemmy.cafe

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Why (according to Piped developer):

YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways.

Here are some things about YouTube:

Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
YouTube can delete your content if you violate the terms
Reduction of legal period for cause of action
YouTube may use your personal information for marketing purposes
YouTube can view your browser history
YouTube can use your content for all their existing and future services
YouTube gathers information about you through third parties
YouTube can license user content to third parties
YouTube provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service
Deleted videos are not really deleted
Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
YouTube is only available to users over a certain age
YouTube can suspend your account for several reasons
YouTube has non-exclusive use of your content
The court of law governing the terms is in the US
YouTube collects your IP address for location use

Source: https://tosdr.org/en/service/274

A lot of inspiration came from NewPipe and Invidious.

I created Piped to fix issues in NewPipe and Invidious which are architectural issues and cannot be fixed easily.

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[–] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

LibreTube is a great client for Piped: https://libretube.dev/

[–] cloudless@lemmy.cafe 0 points 5 months ago

Thanks. I tried LibreTube a very long time ago. It was very slow and buggy.

Looks like it has improved a lot. I will try using it instead of the Piped website (which is actually quite good).

[–] Syrup@lemmy.cafe 2 points 4 months ago

Oof, I'm already getting the "Got error: "Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot"" errors :(

I really like these kinds of things in principal, but so long as uBlock's still able to keep up with YT's nonsense, I still prefer accessing YT with that versus a separate site.

In a perfect world, something like a PeerTube instance or maybe an alternative like Odysee would take off