So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.

Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google’s servers.

You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot

You can find Piped’s source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped

PS: I’m the author of Piped :P

  • TiffyBelle@feddit.ukEnglish
    50·
    1 year ago

    That’s neat, but anyone using Piped on a regular basis should probably look into something like LibRedirect for their browser to redirect every YouTube link to Piped regardless of where they encounter them.

    • theghostoutside_@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for this. I had just been manually replacing the youtube.com part of the URL to my favourite Piped instance. The breadth of the addon is great.

    • Redoomed@lemm.eeEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

      To add on to this tip, for anyone who is reluctant to or cannot install an extension on their browser, you can copy and paste the YouTube link into the search bar of your favorite Piped instance and hit Enter.