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Zenaida macroura@lemmy.ml to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish ·
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Lighttube - A lightweight, privacy respecting alternative frontend for YouTube written in ASP.NET

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Lighttube - A lightweight, privacy respecting alternative frontend for YouTube written in ASP.NET

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Zenaida macroura@lemmy.ml to Privacy Guides@lemmy.oneEnglish ·
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GitHub - kuylar/lighttube: An alternative YouTube front end written in ASP.NET
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An alternative YouTube front end written in ASP.NET - GitHub - kuylar/lighttube: An alternative YouTube front end written in ASP.NET

They have an IzzyOnDroid app in early development.

edit: Here are the instances that are up at the moment:

https://tube.kuylar.dev/

https://tube.dsezer.dev/

https://tube.inftord.tech/

https://lighttube.wardpearce.com/

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  • Artemis Colour@lemmy.sdf.org
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    I had no problem with the previous two frontends (Piped, Invidious). But the main problem with this type of application is that when an enough number of users are reached, YouTube starts banning requests from their instances. Have the authors of this frontend thought about how they will solve this?

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    Now THIS is epic!

    • It’s fast
    • It’s FOSS
    • It’s private
    • It supports accounts
    • It has an app
    • It can play YouTube Music tracks
    • The UI is pretty nice

    Very well done, everyone! Please accept a star on GitHub.

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    hi, LT contributor/hoster here. me and kuylar did not expected this amount of star activity on LT repo, lol thanks for posting LT here! -InF

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    Should I try it instead of Piped? If so, why?

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      Probably not, Piped supports higher resolutions and better video formats.

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    A feature I found particularly interesting is the ability to view community posts which I haven’t seen in any other frontends.

    Invidious supports community posts.

    • Zenaida macroura@lemmy.mlOP
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      Oops, I didn’t notice that. I’ll remove that part.

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    This is awesome!

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    Care to elaborate how this differs from invidious and piped?

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    Thanks for sharing. This seems MUCH faster than Invidious.

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    Well I checked their instance and get this message (No compatible source was found) . But I keep my fingers crossed for the development!

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      we have fixed those a while ago, now everything should be right we’re getting a website real soon also, with list of instances

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      It’s working well on my end. They also have a few other instances up, maybe try those out?

      https://tube.kuylar.dev/

      https://tube.dsezer.dev/

      https://tube.inftord.tech/

      https://lighttube.wardpearce.com/

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        It’s working and damn it’s so fast compared to Invidious and Piped. Thank you so much for that post!!

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    Not working in Safari iOS :/

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    I wish I could bookmark/save things I also wish that somebody makes an addon of this for kodi.

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    “No compatible source was found for this media.” When trying to view a video using the first instance you linked in your post.

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    @Zenaida_macroura i’m probably one of the only people that actually likes that current youtube layout. Just make some overhauls here and there, and it’s practically alright.

    hopefully there’s more instances that show up in the near future, and the development goes pretty smoothly…

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    I really like that UI compared to Invidous’ Are these videos proxied, so will my IP address be known to Google?

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      They say the videos are proxied in the github’s readme. Your IP should be safe.

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        Images don’t seem to be proxied.

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