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?

  • The Stoned Hacker@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    6 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

    • _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      6 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
      2·
      7 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.).

      • Hadriscus@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        6 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
            2·
            6 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
                2·
                6 days ago

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

  • Asparagus0098@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    7 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).

  • net00@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    6 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

    • PraiseTheSoup@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      7 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.

  • Yaky@slrpnk.netEnglish
    2·
    6 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.

  • bokherif@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    6 days ago

    On Android try NewPipe, but dont expect algorithm recommendations, just the main trending pages. Same for iOS use “unwatched”

  • BrightCandle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    6 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.

  • macstainless@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    261·
    7 days ago

    I use YT-DLP to scrip the download of vids I want to watch and it drops them into Plex for me. I set it to run every 4 hours.

    • robalees@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      7 days ago

      Oooh, this is interesting! How do you get the script to get latest videos from your subscribers?

      • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
        11·
        7 days ago

        Can’t speak to his method, but the jellyfin media sever has a YouTube plugin called Fintube that uses the above downloader to integrate YouTube content.

        • pirat@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          7 days ago

          I just tried this on an Ultra.cc seedbox with yt-dlp installed, and the Fintube plugin configured to the right path for that, yet when I go to Dashboard > Fintube and click the Submit button to add a video to the download, nothing happens. Can’t figure out what’s wrong.

          Maybe Jellyfin doesn’t have the necessary write permissions to write the file to that folder, but I’m not quite sure how to change those on such a seedbox, if that’s the case.

          Any experience with this to share? Would the Submit button usually lead to a different view, or does it just stay on that video submission screen while the download happens silently in the background? The lack of action I experience when clicking it feels a bit awkward…

          • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
            8·
            7 days ago

            I just moved over to jellyfin from plex. I highly recommend it. It’s way more streamlined and active than plex, with a seriously good plugin community. No investor based bloat.

            The only issue I had was that jellyfin would crash on scanning my very old music library, where plex would not. To fix it, I used musicbrainz picard to correctly add idv3 tags and remove illegal characters from song names. Now, its smooth as silk.

            • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
              1·
              7 days ago

              All the plugin talk about jellyfin makes me want to switch wish Plex kept support for them. Jellyfin does seem to make way bigger strides than Plex these days

              • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
                3·
                6 days ago

                Honestly, you should swap. They have tons of excellent plugins.. The intro skip alone is way better than Plex’s.

                The end user clients are very solid too. Their kodi client alone is leagues ahead of the plex community one.

                The only feature that plex has over jellyfin at this point in my mind is sharing content easy with people out of your home network. With Jellyfin you need to setup your own certs or reverse proxy like SWAG, or use something like tailscale.

                • Blxter@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  3·
                  7 days ago

                  Yea I also believe (could be wrong) the Sonic analysis for music and Plex amp is much better than what finamp provides

                  Edit: I did run both about a year ago just to see the differences so it would not be hard for me to spin it back up

                  Edit 2: prob going to because I want to test the YouTube and twitch plugins tbh

      • macstainless@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        8·
        7 days ago

        So there’s 2 files that go along with the main script: a config file and a download list.

        The download list file is literally a list of YT channel URLs and any time I want it to get new channels, I add to the list. Conversely if I get tired of watching a channel, I comment it out or just delete it. YT-DLP just traverses the list.

        The config is where the magic happens. That dictates how the file is named, quality you download at, location it’s saved to, format, etc. You can incorporate SponsorBlock which is awesome and even DeArrow has an integration. I enjoy the logging feature so it doesn’t re-download vids it’s already snagged. Generally I’ll tell it to get every video from a channel that’s been posted in the last 15 days.

        My destination for the files is a YouTube library folder I set up in Plex. Plex sees it just as another TV-like library and it pulls the metadata from the files, which are embedded by YT-DLP.

        Hope this helps!

    • decisoft@lemm.eeEnglish
      7·
      7 days ago

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

      • blue lion@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        7 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 🙂