Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

• Piped

  235 7,680 9.8 Vue

  An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.

  

• LibreTube

  126 7,867 9.9 Kotlin

  An alternative frontend for YouTube, for Android.

  

Also check out a FOSS Android app LibreTube[1]. No ads, SponsorBlock, ReturnYouTubeDislike, can proxy all the videos through a Piped instance, subscription sync with a Piped account, offline and online playlists are supported

[1]: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube

• SurveyJS

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  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• Invidious

  422 15,180 9.4 Crystal

  Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

  

Invidious is a good piped alternative for those starting to look at this space: https://invidious.io/

Yattee is a good front end app for both piped and invidious for Apple TV (and iOS and macOS but I prefer the browser on those platforms)

• browser_extension

  171 2,993 8.9 JavaScript

  A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends

  

You can embed videos from an Invidious instance instead; on a video's page[1] there's an "embed video" link[2] you can use. The instance can be one hosted by you if you don't trust public ones, and you probably want to enable proxying by default if you don't want your clients to stream the video directly from Google's servers. You can also use a browser extension like libredirect[3] to automatically replace YouTube embeds with Invidious ones while browsing the web.

[1]: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=xzTH_ZqaFKI

[2]: https://yewtu.be/embed/xzTH_ZqaFKI

[3]: https://github.com/libredirect/browser_extension

• PeerTube

  409 12,670 9.9 TypeScript

  ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser

There already is an alternative to youtube. Peertube https://joinpeertube.org/

The problem is most content creators are only publishing on YouTube, so that is where you have to go. If you are a content creator please publish on peertube so we have options. If you know a creator, likewise encourage them to publish there.

• Youtube-shorts-block

  94 215 4.8 JavaScript

  Play the Youtube shorts video as if it were a normal video

You can block shorts on the web with this:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hide-youtube-short...

Alternatively, you can change shorts into regular youtube format:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/youtube-shorts-blo...

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