Hey there👋
This is a type of website, I’ve been wanting to create for a long time. This website displays various frontends for popular services. Not only are these great for your privacy but these are actually perform very well. The pages load quickly and often use minimum or no javascript.
Another thing I want to say is that I am not a web developer. There are a lot of mistakes in what I have done. Probably what I wrote makes me look like an idiot
So please no crush me
I would appreciate if you could contribute to this project and clean it up and make it better.
If you use a different front end you give an unknown identity your ip data. E.g. the piped website. I have no idea who that is. Why should I use that? He can insert any video he likes. It’s different from e.g. newpipe. With newpipe there is no other party involved than you and google. Yes, they could hide something in the code, but you can inspect it yourself.
Or for google translate, you still send the data to google. Maybe not the data when you write it, but as soon as you press enter, google will have that data. You should use an alternative, e.g. linguee, deepl. I’m not saying it’s perfect but it’s better than giving all your data to google, and it’s actually better than google.
The site is nested. Imo it wiuld be better to clean it.
E.g.
Google Alternatives
Google Translate
Youtube
Respect Piped, it dont use googlevideoAPI like any other front end do. It’s a OpenSource and selfhosted app, with 2 public instances https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped Respect a Deepl, its proprietary and freemium, free version is limited. The only valid FOSS translator i’ve found is the desktop app Tunlookup, but it’s only for Win and Mac, maybe in Linux with Wine (Linux version maybe later say dev). https://thephucit.github.io/tunlookup/ All other are very limited, buggy or paid apps.
You can selfhost it, but what’s the point? Don’t you still get all the recommendations from google?
Piped proxies the videos. So your ip address is not revealed to google, the servers ip address is. Also thousands of other users may also use the main server. So it becomes much more difficult to track you.
Wasn’t that my point in the first place? You need to trust piped. If you selfhost, it’s just you
Yes, it’s proprietary but there is no real foss alternative that is actually that good. I’ll have a look into tunlookup but if it’s only for win and mac it’s not that practicle. Everyone needs a solution, at least for android. Reducing the power of google is more important than foss/proprietary and linguee doesn’t abuse it’s power in the sense thst google does.
The inbuild translator in Vivaldi is from Lingvanex, good for page translations. Tunlookup is a Desktop app, but work the same as an extension do, selected text apears in the translator when you open it with the fast keys or clicking in the icon. For me it works better than Deepl. I think the same, avoid Google is more important as FOSS or not, but is better use FOSS if it’s equal or better than proprietary apps. In Vivaldi I can view YT in it’s feed reader, which use it embedded anonymously, otherwise I use most Piped or the desktop client FreeTube, both use proxie.
You can also inspect the code of Piped. If you don’ t trust it, you can always self host piped. There are also several other instances to choose from.
Keep in mind that newpipe does not proxy the videos. So google is still sees your ip address.
About the other things, you said. Yeah I will think about it. Nesting the google apps seem like a good idea.
How do you know Newpipe does not proxy videos?
It doesn’t proxy the videos and that is true. It just scrapes information from the YouTube website.