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[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Half the time piped links won't work for me and the other half of the time the videos buffer incredibly slow.

[–] akwd169 11 points 10 months ago

I had a similar time with piped not working reliably, I prefer invidious, specifically iv.ggtyler.dev has pretty much always worked for me

Anyways, It's really easy to just swap for another instance or whatever

OP link is

https://piped.video/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

Just take everything after the domain and TLD

(everything after "piped.video")

And slap it on the end of another instances domain and TLD

(For example iv.ggtyler.dev)

End result:

iv.ggtyler.dev/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

It even works with YouTube:

youtube.com/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

On the one hand, there are true alternatives like Vimeo. On the other, sometimes you just need to access an existing video...

[–] [email protected] 58 points 10 months ago (23 children)

I liked it except for that "ad blocking is piracy" shit he snuck in there

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Warning: It's Linus Sebastian

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you, I was about to click.

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[–] sugar_in_your_tea 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Which streams YouTube content. He posted it to YouTube, piped just removes ads from YouTube videos.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (3 children)

it also proxies the video and blocks trackers iirc, giving you some form of anonymity from Google

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Go on then, LTT. Delete your youtube account.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 10 months ago

They have already started their own platform, Floatplane. And other creators are on it as well.

Simple fact is though, YouTube is still king, and so leaving YouTube entirely isn't tenable at this point. But they are already working on alternatives.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 10 months ago (1 children)

They are leading in the right direction. I think that's the important.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Apparently they're going to address YouTube replacements in the second part of the series. Also I'm fairly sure they spoke about Youtube ReVanced a couple of times before.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] sugar_in_your_tea 16 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I just installed it yesterday and it was super easy. So far I'm liking it, and I now have two profiles: Owner (main, no Play services) and work (has Play services for work apps). I'm still moving all my crap over, so I guess we'll see over the next few weeks if I run into issues.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Enjoy your spyware-free degoogled experience! Feel free to dm me if you have any questions. I'd say I'm quite experienced with GrapheneOS, degoogling and Android in general.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea 3 points 10 months ago (13 children)

Thanks, I might just do that!

I've only had it a day, and I haven't even swapped my SIM yet (waiting for my case to be delivered), so I'll give it a couple weeks to really get a feel for things. I'm going on a road trip soon, and may be going out of the country, so if I'm going to run into issues, it's going to be soon. I'm also going to try using the eSIM to trial Google Fi (international data FTW, free for 7 days), so it should be a rather complete experience.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Just be careful actually using that international data for too long cause I used it when I took a semester abroad and they shut off my data and account access literally on the day of my flight back home and kept billing me for months after when I didn't have access to my account to cancel billing for my (non-)service. They say the majority of your service should be spent in the US but they don't actually define anywhere what that means to them. They just tell you one day that you're shit out of luck and not eligible for service anymore (including domestically).

None of their support people were able to help by turning my service back on long enough to get back to the states or even just telling me how to get back into good standing. The only thing they were able to tell me is why it was shut off.

Anyways if you do need international data, airalo was really reasonably priced and easy to set up. Came in clutch. Fuck google up the ass for leaving me stranded like that.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This was just part 1 with probably the lowest hanging fruits :)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago

Still glad they mentioned this topic at all. I wouldn't have expected it from LTT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

I installed it one week ago after getting a new Pixel 8. Loving it so far.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'm nearly there, except I can't get away from Google Maps. There's not really any alternative here that provides public transport information.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah google maps is still the GOAT as much as I wish it wasn't.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I imagine they're really itching to torpedo it somehow. Surprisingly long time for them not to do so.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Having issues playing this in mobile browser. Can't copy like to play in NewPipe mobile.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Try just putting the end into the search.

/watch?v=YnSv8ylLfPw

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

Replace syncing to Google contacts and Google calendar with webDAV and calDAV to next cloud.

I run next cloud in my garage. DAVx is free from F-Droid app store. Setup is easy. And you don't need Google accounts to store contacts and calenda in your home cloud

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