I’m currently in the process of switching from YouTube to Piped and was getting fed up with rewriting YouTube links myself. I finally found an extension that can do this with a relatively easy setup:

Redirector Firefox

Redirector Chrome

Thought maybe more people might find this interesting. My setup is in the pic.

Edit: @nutbutter@discuss.tchncs.de Just suggested using LibRedirect which is even better than Redirector. Also since Redirector isn’t really maintained anymore.

  • Psythik@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    Never used Piped but I’m intrigued. Will addons like Enhancer for YouTube, SponsorBlock, and Return YouTube Dislike work on it? Does it show comments? Will HDR videos show in HDR?

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      1 year ago

      YT addons generally don’t work on Piped, but some of the most popular ones are already built in, like SponsorBlock, DeArrow and Dislike. It does show comments, but you can’t post any comments yourself. HDR videos should work since it’s just pulling the video files directly from YT servers.

      You can just try it out, simply replace “www.youtube.com” with “piped.video” in any YT video or channel url.