Show HN: Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in alternative front ends

• browser_extension

  171 2,950 9.0 JavaScript

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

  

As others mentioned: https://libredirect.github.io/

• yt-siphon

  1 323 6.2 JavaScript

  Firefox add-on to open YouTube videos in open alternative frontends (e.g: Piped)

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• FreeTube

  497 11,709 9.9 JavaScript

  An Open Source YouTube app for privacy

  

FreeTupe [1] would be the closest thing you can have.

[1] https://freetubeapp.io

• nitter

  950 9,639 6.0 Nim

  Alternative Twitter front-end

Although not out of the box right now, it requires running some external scripts to grab guest accounts and running a build off a branch or fork. See https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/issues/983

• Piped

  235 7,484 9.9 Vue

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

  

I've also just updated the README to make it more obvious what the extension does.

The default alternative frontend I have configured is https://piped.video , but you can use any different instance / service if it supports the same YouTube url scheme ({domain}/watch?v=...).

This is configurable in the add-on's options page, you can also access it by clicking on the add-on's icon

• NewPipeExtractor

  70 1,118 9.0 Java

  NewPipe's core library for extracting data from streaming sites

  

• ytdl-patched

  123 473 9.3 Python

  yt-dlp fork with some more features

  

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• youtube-local

  17 447 7.3 JavaScript

  browser-based client for watching Youtube anonymously and with greater page performance

My project here is similar: https://github.com/user234683/youtube-local

It keeps everything in the browser while still being local to the machine

• fediverser

  6 19 8.3 Python

  A set of utilities to help bring content and users from legacy social media networks into the fediverse

  

> reddit redirect will randomly stop working

One of the goals from https://github.com/mushroomlabs/fediverser is to mirror reddit discussions into different Lemmy instances. This coming week I'm planning to work on the part that lets you connect your reddit account to a respective Lemmy instance and migrate your posts. Would you like to try it out?

• Userscripts

  1 25 1.6 JavaScript

  A personal collection of modified and discontinued userscripts. (by theborg3of5)

Here's how I use youtube, usually without opening web frontend at all:

Install mpv and yt-dlp.

Use play-with addon to open youtube or other video links directly in mpv.

Periodically convert youtube subscriptions into OPML using an userscript.

Import OPML into freetube or other RSS reader to check for new videos.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/play-with/

https://github.com/theborg3of5/Userscripts/tree/master/youtu...

• WebKit

  151 7,438 10.0

  Home of the WebKit project, the browser engine used by Safari, Mail, App Store and many other applications on macOS, iOS and Linux.

  

> That's excessive scope creep. Adding site-specific workarounds for some sites feels uncomfortable.

Not to Google and its fellow corporations apparently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29707078

https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/blob/main/Source/WebCore/pa...

They have site-specific fixes for their own sites. Why can obviously apply the exact same strategy to dealing with every single website out there. If a website is broken or generally annoying to use, just fix it by providing a site specific version of the browser.

> Who decides what websites get "fixed", and how?

Whoever develops the browser or its extensions. Arguably the whole of uBlock Origin and its filter lists is just a database of site specific fixes. If people can maintain an extremely huge list of advertisers and blockers for every website out there, surely they can maintain something like this too.

> Also, remember how Mozilla is funded.

I remember Mozilla has about a billion dollars in the bank. Who cares about their Google funding? I doubt they're gonna drop them anyway. I bet they pay them just to ward off risk of antitrust lawsuits.

• play-with-mpv

  14 338 0.0 JavaScript

  Chrome extension that allows you to play videos in webpages like youtube with MPV instead

Here's several options for opening with either mpv or saving with yt-dlp:

https://github.com/Thann/play-with-mpv (chrome)

• open-in-mpv

  2 95 5.0 Go

  Simple web extension to open videos in mpv

• mpvnet

  1 19 5.7 Python

  Firefox / Chrome extension to play / download media across different websites with mpv / yt-dlp

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