Seems like Piped and Invidious are both on their last legs. Public instances on both services are pretty iffy, they go down fairly often now. Freetube works well on desktop but no real way to sync subscriptions and watch history to a phone. Self-hosting Piped/Invidious might be the solution but I don’t know if it’s worth the upkeep when YouTube is actively fighting against it.
I see zero purpose of alternative front ends. I only like them on mobile because they provide a better experience. They get your IP regardless, and you can eliminate pretty much all the tracking with aggressive adblocking, so it’d be quite similar to a privacy front end.
If you proxy video hrough Invidious - Youtube won’t get your IP
youtube has your ip.
seizures and dies
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I like the alt front ends so I can subscribe without a google account.
Possible with RSS
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I’m pretty sure you can still use https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id= to get an RSS feed.
For example: https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=
https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UCNzszbnvQeFzObW0ghk0Ckw
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
You seem to be answering that yourself. Because RSS involves no third parties at all.
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Incorrect. Youtube does offer RSS, that is the point.
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Instead of wasting your time in this conversation you might have tried just clicking on the link to see what it was. It’s simply a service where you search the platforms for a user and it spits out the RSS feed either as provided by the platform itself - Youtube - or by some libre mirror.
I don’t know when it started, but I had to start using Freetube after YouTube started clamping down on ad blockers.