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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Death of Piped? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by user_naa@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error "Sign in to confirm you are not a bot". It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.

Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently

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[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

If you're looking for an ad-free client that still works right now; In the 6 years I've been using YouTube (re)vanced on android, I've only had it fail to play videos for 1 single day around 6 months ago. That was fixed within 24hrs.

Not quite the same as a full custom instance/frontend like piped; but it'll do the job while you wait for updates.

[–] Cris16228 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That's not really privacy friendly, right? I don't exactly know how it patches the apk and what it changes but it doesn't remove trackers. Correct me if I'm wrong

[–] Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Ah, I should have double checked the community.... Got here from /all.

No, it's not explicitly privacy friendly. It's mainly focused on a wide variety of optional UX changes, returning several paywalled features like PIP/Background playback, and removing advertising as well as providing sponsor block.