cross-posted from: https://feddit.rocks/post/3214
> So I created an open-source Lemmy bot to reply to posts/comments with YouTube links with converted Piped links to preserve your privacy.
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> Piped is an open-source alternative privacy-friendly frontend to YouTube. You can watch the same content from YouTube without connecting to Google's servers.
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> You can find the source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/lemmy-piped-link-bot
> You can find Piped's source code at: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
> PS: I'm the author of Piped :P
Author of Piped (and also a member of TeamNewPipe and LibreTube) here.
I haven’t seen any changes from YouTube recently, the ways we fetch age restricted content still seem to work for most videos. However, this method may not work for all videos as YouTube has different levels of age restrictions afaict. I’ve seen very few videos fall under that category personally.
If anything were to change in the future, I may consider implementing something similar to what this extension does (or use their API) in Piped.