Piped: The Youtube Experience You've Been Waiting For
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Anyone who's been using privacy-respecting frontends for some time will recognise Piped. A YouTube frontend with no ads, integrated SponsorBlock, return dislikes, and a customisable UI.
Piped also allows you to subscribe to as many channels as you want without ever logging into a Google account. You can export your subs list from YouTube and import them to Piped seamlessly.
If you've never heard of it, give it a glance at https://piped.video. For more instances, check here.
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Inb4 YouTube starts charging for API access… too soon? :(
Piped (and similar projects like NewPipe, Invidious, and FreeTube) scrape YouTube instead of using an API; so just like Nitter, they won't be affected by a paid API.
Ironically Nitter stopped working lately, since Twitter started requiring users to be logged in to read anything.
Invidious does use a YouTube API. FreeTube uses Invidious, so probably same story there. I don't know about the others.
I recently had a back and forth with one of invidious's developers. Judge for yourself.
I'm sure they're watching the reddit situation very closely.