An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Piped
An open-source alternative frontend for YouTube which is efficient by design.
The Problem
YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways. You give them a lot of data - ranging from ideas, music taste, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
By using Piped, you can freely watch and listen to content without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing.
Features:
User Features
Technical Features
Screenshots
Player Trending Channel
Having trouble?
If you have any general questions regarding how Piped works or trouble setting up your own instance, please consult the following public chat rooms and documentation for help. Please use these platforms exclusively for such cases and do NOT open an issue.
Public Chat Rooms/Communities
Self-Hosting
See https://docs.piped.video/docs/self-hosting/ for more details.
The source code of the documentation website is available at https://github.com/TeamPiped/Documentation.
Documentation
The documentation can be found at https://docs.piped.video (accessible via IPNS as well).
Extensions
To redirect all YouTube links to Piped, you are highly recommended to use either Piped-Redirects or Libredirect.
Contributing Translations
You can help by translating the project to a language you speak at https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/piped/frontend/
Mirrors
Forking, and contributing
git checkout -b my-awesome-feature
git add .
git commit -am 'Add awesome new feature'
git push origin my-awesome-feature
Development Setup
pnpm install
Compiles and hot-reloads for development
pnpm serve
You can now make changes and view then in realtime!
Contact
If you would like to contact me personally, you may do so with the following means:
Donations
Donations can be made at:
FIAT donations can be made at: https://liberapay.com/kavin
Contributions in any other form are also welcomed.
Made with Piped
YourKit
YourKit has given an open source license for their profiler, greatly simplifying the profiling of Piped's performance.
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