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I'm looking for an addon to automatically convert YouTube links to Piped or similar front end. Thanks!

*Edit: specifically for the android mobile browser

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[–] eruchitanda 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On FireFox Beta/Nightly and more privacy-focused forks, like Mull and Fennec, you can enable 'Custom Add-on collection'.

You can enable it by going to Settings > About > and tapping the logo 3(?) times.

You can add your iwn account, or any shared 'collection'.

I find Redirector more useful than the other options, because you're not limited, and can add any site you want.

GL.

[–] eruchitanda 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

AFAIK, adding a custom 'collection' is the only way to add custom add-on RN (or downloading browser like IceRaven, that simply does it for you).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Neat, I had no idea that IceRaven had a custom collection built in. I stopped using IceRaven after I had discovered Mull. Perhaps I should give it another shot.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

On Libretube you can select if share an Youtube link or an Piped link.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

You can press the share button and select newpipe to play it.

[–] shrugal 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can install Libretube and make it the default handler for youtube and many public piped domains. This way when you click on a yt link it opens in Libretube and plays the video via your piped instance.

On my phone it's in the system settings for the app under "Open by default".