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De-Google Your Life - Part 1 (piped.video)
submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you're on desktop, check out freetube instead of the buggy mess that is piped links.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Or just... install an ad-blocker. With Container Tabs on Firefox, YouTube doesn't associate those links with me (at least not through my Google Account), and I don't see ads with my ad-blocker.

No need for using random websites that may just be stealing my data a different way. I'm happy to watch on YouTube, I'm just won't watch the ads or opt-in to tracking.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Freetube is not a website, but a desktop application that massively improves the usability over YouTube's UX. It doesn't serve the same purpose as an ad blocker, which also works well for its purpose.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ah, okay, thanks for the clarification. I've never used it, just seen it mentioned here.

Regardless, I think it would be easier to use YouTube links instead of Piped links for redirecting links to it. Then again, I don't have experience with it, only with Android YouTube alternatives like NewPipe and Grayjay.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah in that case I agree. Tons of people have their preferred YouTube frontend, or application, or way of using YouTube itself, and we can all get YouTube links to automatically redirect to our preferred method, but if someone links their preferred frontend directly, anyone who uses a different method all of a sudden can't use it automatically.