grayjay, it's an app developed by Louis Rossman to combine a lot of streaming platforms into one privacy and security respecting app. it does have billionaire backing tho if that yanks your chain
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+1 on Grayjay. Also Tubular. FreeTube on PC and SmartTube on TV.
Thanks! I’ll check it out. Thanks for yanking my chain
ofc!
I just watch it on youtube.com without logging in. Sacrificing convenience and using some frontend that only work if you pray hard is not something I want to do daily-drive
I use containers on Firefox to sandbox YouTube, and then have a throwaway account that’s literally just for YouTube and nothing else. Everywhere else on the web, scripts from Google are blacklisted using uBO.
There are some periods where YouTube make changes frequently so that e.g. FreeTube stops working for some time, but for the most part it works reliably well. I would say it provides a much better convenience than watching on youtube.com logged out, as you have profiles, subscriptions, playlist and history. Including adblock, sponsorblock and dearrow, and granular control over what to show or not (comments, shorts, live etc.).
Freetube on desktop works beautifully. They just added playlists too
This is awesome!
on the minus side, it's electron and it doesn't have tabs, but it's a rather minor inconvenience for me
Do your subscriptions load well? I just imported mine from freshrss and they’re loading slowly
A couple seconds does it... I have 56 subscribed channels though, that's not a lot, perhaps loading times scale with this number
Hmm maybe I’ll reinstall. Never loading for me. I can click individual but not all subs
You can check the tracker for open issues, see if you're encountering a known one
NewPipe on my phone. I don't have PC I can use rn but when I used to have one I'd just use my browser (mainly Firefox) with ublock origin to watch YouTube (without signing in).
A nice docker friendly front end to yt-dlp. I use it to watch YouTube on iOS devices where ublock origin is not an option.
I use a self-hosted invidious instance, and despite the recent issues with Google trying to block them mine works behind Mullvad VPN.
I use the web app on desktop, and Yattee client on my phone/ipad
NewPipe or PipePipe.
Been using PipePipe for awhile now and love it. Unfortunately, recently it has not been able to load playlists 9/10 times. Very frustrating. Hopefully it gets a patch soon.
Any problems I've had with these apps has usually been solved by reconnecting my VPN.
I don't have a VPN.
I don't watch a lot of youtube, but DuckDuckGo browser (on Android and Windows, at least) has a Duck Player that removes all of the cruft around videos and is private afaik.
On Android try NewPipe, but dont expect algorithm recommendations, just the main trending pages. Same for iOS use "unwatched"
Newpipe or libretube
I sub to channels and use Youtubes recommendations and new for you to find additional channels etc but I don't watch them I use Metube and a browser plugin and download the videos to a directory. I don't get all the privacy but I also am not giving them much watch data and I can avoid the ads.
Freetube on Linux, newpipe on android and maybe a private invidious instance.
I use YT-DLP to scrip the download of vids I want to watch and it drops them into Plex for me. I set it to run every 4 hours.
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Grayjay
Not foss
I didn't say it was, I'm just answering the dude's question
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I use a private Piped instance
Can you show your docker-compose? I've tried several times without succeeding 🤧
You can't just ask that. Not without at least taking them out to a fancy dinner first. Maybe a little dancing.
My bad 😁
Before anything, you'll want to create a folder for the unix socket: mkdir /var/run/ytproxy and chown it to your reverse proxy's user and group.
The Docker files:
compose.yml
services:
piped-frontend:
image: 1337kavin/piped-frontend:latest
container_name: piped-frontend
environment:
BACKEND_HOSTNAME: $API_ENDPOINT
depends_on:
- piped
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- proxy
piped-proxy:
image: 1337kavin/piped-proxy:latest
container_name: piped-proxy
environment:
- UDS=1
volumes:
- /var/run/ytproxy:/app/socket # unix socket location
user: 1000:1000
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- proxy
piped:
image: 1337kavin/piped:latest
container_name: piped-backend
volumes:
- ./piped/config/config.properties:/app/config.properties:ro
depends_on:
- piped-db
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- backend_piped
- proxy
piped-db:
image: pgautoupgrade/pgautoupgrade:16-alpine
container_name: piped-db
environment:
- POSTGRES_DB=$DB_NAME
- POSTGRES_USER=$DB_USER
- POSTGRES_PASSWORD=$DB_PASS
volumes:
- ./piped/pgdb:/var/lib/postgresql/data
restart: unless-stopped
networks:
- backend_piped
networks:
backend_piped:
proxy:
external: true
.env
API_ENDPOINT= # no scheme prefix (ex. pipedapi.domain.example)
DB_NAME=
DB_USER=
DB_PASS=
To configure the reverse proxy (I use nginx), you can use Piped's recommended files with your domains. The linked repo also contains a template for the required config.properties.
Let me know if you run into issues, I'll be glad to help 🙂
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