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