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title: 'Why'
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weight: 4
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summary: Why did I create Piped?
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## Why did I create Piped?
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YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways.
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Here are some things about YouTube:
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- Tracking via third-party cookies for other purposes without your consent.
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- YouTube can delete your content if you violate the terms
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- Reduction of legal period for cause of action
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- YouTube may use your personal information for marketing purposes
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- YouTube can view your browser history
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- YouTube can use your content for all their existing and future services
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- YouTube gathers information about you through third parties
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- YouTube can license user content to third parties
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- YouTube provider makes no warranty regarding uninterrupted, timely, secure or error-free service
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- Deleted videos are not really deleted
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- Your data may be processed and stored anywhere in the world
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- YouTube is only available to users over a certain age
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- YouTube can suspend your account for several reasons
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- YouTube has non-exclusive use of your content
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- The court of law governing the terms is in the US
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- YouTube collects your IP address for location use
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Source: https://tosdr.org/en/service/274
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A lot of inspiration came from NewPipe and Invidious.
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I created Piped to fix issues in NewPipe and Invidious which are architectural issues and cannot be fixed easily.
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### NewPipe
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- Your IP is exposed to YouTube.
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- Feeds are slow to load.
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### Invidious
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- Uses way too much resources.
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- Total bandwidth limited by the peak capacity of the load balancer.
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- Coded in Crystal, a language that is relatively hard for beginners.
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- Caching is done at a backend level.
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- Invidious was a learning project.
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- Invidious crashes all the time.
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- Various hacks are required to keep an instance running at a reasonable stablity.
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However, there are some drawbacks of Piped:
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- JavaScript is required
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- Browsers without Service-Workers support will feel significantly slower. Eg: Tor Browser
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