Moving away from Google. I just added my fav subs into my rss feed but that isn’t an enough to get good recs. What else can one do? Alternative front ends that work?

  • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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

  • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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

  • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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.

  • BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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.

      • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
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        5 days ago

        on the minus side, it’s electron and it doesn’t have tabs, but it’s a rather minor inconvenience for me

          • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
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            5 days ago

            A couple seconds does it… I have 56 subscribed channels though, that’s not a lot, perhaps loading times scale with this number

              • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
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                5 days ago

                You can check the tracker for open issues, see if you’re encountering a known one

  • Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 days ago

    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).

    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      5 days ago

      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.

    • cyberwolfie@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      5 days ago

      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.).

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
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      5 days ago

      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.

    • decisoft@lemm.eeEnglish
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      6 days ago

      Can you show your docker-compose? I’ve tried several times without succeeding 🤧

      • blue lion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        6 days ago

        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 🙂

  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    6 days ago

    Grayjay on my Android phone. I like that it supports a lot of different services, and I have subs on Odysee, Rumble, and Nebula (I pay for a sub there). I sometimes download videos for offline use if I’m going to listen on my commute or something (no point in using up data if I don’t need to).

    On my desktop/laptop, I just use YouTube directly w/ uBlock Origin on Firefox (to block ads) without logging in. I don’t watch much YouTube on my desktop/laptop, and when I do, I’ll just look for a specific video or whatever.

    I also have NewPipe installed on my phone for when I want to find something specific (i.e. background music or something), because Grayjay’s search kind of sucks.

          • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            5 days ago

            It’s really not. Windows XP had its source leaked, it’s not source available. Grayjay is source available, so I can see every new commit before it hits my phone. That’s a pretty big difference, and it’s the most important when it comes to public security audits.

              • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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                5 days ago

                That doesn’t follow. If there’s a bad commit in Windows 10 or 11, I won’t even know about it. If there’s a bad commit in Grayjay, I can:

                • not upgrade, or downgrade to an unaffected version
                • report the issue on their issue tracker
                • technically violate the license by patching it myself and building my own copy (probably fine provided I don’t distribute changes)

                I can do exactly none of that with most proprietary software, so this source-available license is much better than those. Again, it’s not ideal, but considering it the same as every other proprietary software license is absurd.

  • pe1uca@lemmy.pe1uca.devEnglish
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    6 days ago

    With invidious and in FreshRSS I use the youtube extension to use the embedded video player, you just need update this part of the code https://github.com/FreshRSS/Extensions/blob/master/xExtension-YouTube/extension.php#L153-L163
    It easy just to replace for this:

        public function getHtmlContentForLink(FreshRSS_Entry $entry, string $link): string
    {
        $domain = 'www.youtube.com';
        if ($this->useNoCookie) {
            $domain = 'www.youtube-nocookie.com';
        }
        $domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
        $params = 'quality=dash';
        $url = str_replace('//www.youtube.com/watch?v=', '//'.$domain.'/embed/', $link);
        $url = str_replace('http://', 'https://', $url);
        $url = $url . '?' . $params;

        return $this->getHtml($entry, $url);
    }

    The only change is to use $domain = 'invidious.personal.com';
    And add the parameter quality=dash

    Seems there’s also this one https://github.com/tunbridgep/freshrss-invidious
    but haven’t tried it