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Piped is a privacy friendly alternative YouTube frontend

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

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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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