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I do watch videos from YouTube because of its massive content, but I tend to use invidious or piped links - because I don’t want to provide YT any more traffic than they need.

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StijnVVL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Could you please explain what piped links do exactly? I see them here all the time but they rarely work for me. I’d like to understand

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- DeadNinja@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  I will try to do an ELI5.
  
  Piped is what is known as a “proxy”, or rather an interface to YouTube.
  
  There is a very popular piece of code called NewPipeExtractor, which is used to scrape data from the YouTube website.
  
  Piped utilizes NewPipeExtractor to set up an “intermediary”, a proxy website that looks and feels pretty much like YouTube.
  
  The good thing about watching videos through the Piped proxy site is that YouTube doesn’t get to know your IP address. Which is why it is very popular among privacy advocates.
  
  That is it in a nutshell. If interested, you will find more information in their GitHub page.
  
  github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
  
  Hope this helped.
  
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  - StijnVVL@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Thanks a lot! This is very helpful indeed
    
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