# \[Piped\] An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend
**URL:** https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677
**Category:** Apps
**Created:** [February 22, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677 "2024-02-22T21:09:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@orhtej2](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/orhtej2)
#### Post date: [February 22, 2024, 9:09pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/1 "2024-02-22T21:09:15Z")
# Piped for YunoHost
[](https://dash.yunohost.org/appci/app/piped)  
[](https://install-app.yunohost.org/?app=piped)
## Overview
# The Problem
YouTube has an extremely invasive privacy policy which relies on using user data in unethical ways. You give them a lot of data - ranging from ideas, music taste, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
By using Piped, you can freely watch and listen to content without the fear of prying eyes watching everything you are doing.
**Shipped version:** 2024.02.12~ynh1
**Demo:** [https://piped.video/](https://piped.video/)
## 🔴 Antifeatures
- **Non-free Network Services** : Promotes or depends entirely on a non-free network service.
## Documentation and resources
- YunoHost code repository: [https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/piped\_ynh](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/piped_ynh)
- Official app website: [https://docs.piped.video/](https://docs.piped.video/)
- Upstream app code repository: [https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped](https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped)
- YunoHost Store: [https://apps.yunohost.org/app/piped](https://apps.yunohost.org/app/piped)
- Report a bug: [https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/piped\_ynh/issues](https://github.com/YunoHost-Apps/piped_ynh/issues)
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### Author:  [@Mamie](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Mamie)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 10:15am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/2 "2024-02-23T10:15:01Z")
I may be paranoïd, but just in case, Google could just ban your IP to access their services if they decide to, they dislike this kind of tools.
Now a question : does the YunoHost package follow the doc about IP and rotate IPv6 frequently ?
[https://docs.piped.video/docs/self-hosting/](https://docs.piped.video/docs/self-hosting/)
> Because YouTube tends to ban IP addresses, it is recommended to either
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> - use the [IPv6 rotator made by the Invidious team](https://docs.piped.video/docs/self-hosting/#ipv6-rotator-using-docker) - This is the recommended way because it’s easier to set up and doesn’t increase loading times.
> - use a VPN or proxy between the Piped backend/proxy and YouTube. to keep the instance running if you plan to make your instance public or to have a lot of users.
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### Author:  [@orhtej2](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/orhtej2)
#### Post date: [February 23, 2024, 10:46am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/3 "2024-02-23T10:46:59Z")
It does not, contributions welcome!
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### Author:  [@Iammee](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/Iammee)
#### Post date: [February 25, 2024, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/4 "2024-02-25T18:19:20Z")
This is awesome. Great work! Likely needs the ipv6 rotation to be practical however.
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### Author:  [@cichy1173](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/cichy1173)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 6:49pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/5 "2024-07-20T18:49:28Z")
Hi. Is there a way to configure Piped in a way when video can be watched only by logged in users (and registration would be turned off)? I want to have public facing Piped instance but I want to be the only user.
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### Author:  [@orhtej2](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/orhtej2)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/6 "2024-07-20T23:14:18Z")
Sure, just set the access to registered users?
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### Author:  [@cichy1173](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/cichy1173)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2024, 11:25pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/7 "2024-07-20T23:25:20Z")
Is this possible to do? How to configure Piped that way?
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### Author:  [@orhtej2](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/orhtej2)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/8 "2024-07-21T09:26:42Z")
just adjust this setting during installation, this way you can choose for the app to be only accessible when you’re logged in
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### Author:  [@cichy1173](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/cichy1173)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2024, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/9 "2024-07-21T13:05:40Z")
This configuration from your screenshot will block app with Yunohosts SSO. I want to have app public facing but strict video watching only for logged in users:
> [@cichy1173](#):
>
> want to have public facing Piped instance but I want to be the only user.
I need that configuration to use LibreTube.
I think it can be configured on app level (in some configuration file) but I do not know Piped.
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### Author:  [@leberschnitzel](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/leberschnitzel)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/10 "2025-01-05T17:40:47Z")
usually piped is set up with three different aliases for piped, pipedapi and pipedproxy.
It seems like the setup with Yunohost hides the pipedapi and makes it not accessible from the outside, even when it is set to visitor rights. Or how would I access the piped api?
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### Author:  [@leberschnitzel](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/leberschnitzel)
#### Post date: [January 5, 2025, 5:47pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/11 "2025-01-05T17:47:26Z")
I just found the answer myself: /api/ at the end of the url and you’re good 🙂
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### Author:  [@mobi0001](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/mobi0001)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2026, 3:53pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/12 "2026-03-15T15:53:44Z")
All I get is 404 not found even with `/api/`
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### Author:  [@orhtej2](https://forum.yunohost.org/u/orhtej2)
#### Post date: [March 15, 2026, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.yunohost.org/t/piped-an-alternative-privacy-friendly-youtube-frontend/28677/13 "2026-03-15T17:56:00Z")
Assuming the app installed properly try force-refreshing/clearing cache/removing appkication data from developer tools, most of the routing is done client side so it may fail if you’re reusing a domain.