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Lighttube - A lightweight, privacy respecting alternative frontend for YouTube written in ASP.NET

GitHub - kuylar/lighttube: An alternative YouTube front end written in ASP.NET

A feature I found particularly interesting is the ability to view community posts which I haven't seen in any other frontends.

They also have an IzzyOnDroid app in early development.

edit: Here are the instances that are up at the moment:

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I had no problem with the previous two frontends (Piped, Invidious). But the main problem with this type of application is that when an enough number of users are reached, YouTube starts banning requests from their instances. Have the authors of this frontend thought about how they will solve this?

A feature I found particularly interesting is the ability to view community posts which I haven’t seen in any other frontends.
Invidious supports community posts.
- Oops, I didn't notice that. I'll remove that part.

Should I try it instead of Piped? If so, why?
- Probably not, Piped supports higher resolutions and better video formats.

hi, LT contributor/hoster here. me and kuylar did not expected this amount of star activity on LT repo, lol thanks for posting LT here! -InF

I wish I could bookmark/save things I also wish that somebody makes an addon of this for kodi.

@Zenaidamacroura i'm probably one of the only people that actually likes that current youtube layout. Just make some overhauls here and there, and it's practically alright.
hopefully there's more instances that show up in the near future, and the development goes pretty smoothly..

I really like that UI compared to Invidous' Are these videos proxied, so will my IP address be known to Google?
- They say the videos are proxied in the github's readme. Your IP should be safe.
  
  Images don't seem to be proxied.