yt-siphon
Productivity
browser extension
SHOW HN2023
333points
129comments
#120of 3,109 in 2023
Top 4%of 2023 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
2 positive, 11 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 16 comments about the project. Thread score -0.08.
Idea: 0 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful alternative to Privacy Redirect and LibRedirect for choosing frontends
From 2 comments
I've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to…
jraph on HNDoesn’t libredirect already do this? Though I don’t use it for YouTube so I can’t say for sure
Shekelphile on HN
Objections
Browsers or extensions shouldn't need to chase YouTube changes; cat-and-mouse game
From 2 comments
It would be nice if browsers were able to get around all these kinds of shenanigans directly, instead of having to always reach for extensions and addons and endlessly…
ryandrake on HNHow could that work, given that a web site can change its working every day? Each site can have its passionated circumvention developer that maintains an extension like this. Is…
pmontra on HN
Requests
Cross-browser support
From 1 comment
Questions
What does this do differently from Privacy Redirect?
From 1 comment
What does this do differently to Privacy Redirect? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/
aftergibson on HN
Alternatives named
Privacy Redirect
From 2 comments
What does this do differently to Privacy Redirect? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redirect/
aftergibson on HNI've been using Privacy Redirect and some of the other generalist redirector extension with quite some success. Privacy redirect also redirects twitter to nitter, reddit to…
jraph on HN
LibRedirect
From 2 comments
As others mentioned: https://libredirect.github.io/ It redirects so many pages to their privacy friendly frontends. Can't use the internet anymore without this extension.
SushiHippie on HNDoesn’t libredirect already do this? Though I don’t use it for YouTube so I can’t say for sure
Shekelphile on HN
NewPipe
From 1 comment
On Android you can try NewPipe which serves as an alternate front end.
politelemon on HN
FreeTube
From 1 comment
I just use the FreeTube desktop client, because even if you get around the anti ad-blocking stuff on YT, you're still left with the increasingly terrible UX. No doubt they'll…
karaterobot on HN