I love the idea of a privacy-focused fronend for YouTube, but every time I visit a piped link, it just spins forever. Both on my Linux desktop and my Android phone.

Maybe I’m doing something wrong?

Here is the latest one I tried and failed to load.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    131·
    1 year ago

    It’s a cat and mouse game with Google. Sometimes Piped works, other times it loads only the first minute of the video before hanging forever, and sometimes it doesn’t load at all. Often YouTube makes an updates that breaks it altogether until someone fixes it.

    I’ve had the most luck with NewPipe but unfortunately it’s only a mobile app, not a website. Works great though.

        • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
          3·
          1 year ago

          I’m afraid if it’s not a) FOSS and b) on F-Droid, I’m not interested. Grayjay appears not to qualify on either front.

          Edit: Oh damn. Louis Rossmann made Grayjay. Now I’m a little disappointed in Louis Rossmann.

            • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
              3·
              1 year ago

              I saw that. It’s not FOSS, though if that’s what you’re implying.

              Just reading over the license, it allows neither making modifications to the source nor commercial use. Allowing both of those would be necessary for it to qualify as either Free Software or Open Source. (And I’m not sure those are the only things in the license preventing it from qualifying as FOSS.)

              Source available ≠ FOSS. And Grayjay isn’t FOSS even if its source can be perused.

              • MigratingtoLemmy@lemmy.world
                1·
                1 year ago

                TBH I don’t really care that much as long as the source is available. Some talented dev can fork it if the project goes sideways. I’d like a webapp/desktop app too

                • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  Some talented dev can fork it

                  Not without infringing copyright. At least not the way the license is written now.

                • TootSweet@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
                  2·
                  1 year ago

                  They don’t give a flying crap if you modify the source and compile it privately for yourself

                  Then why do they leave permission to do so out of their license? (So far, at least.)

                  they just don’t want people or companies making profit from their works or distributing said modifications without their approval.

                  That’s called “proprietary.”