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Never heard of piped. Filling the same niche as revanced?
Kind of. It's a desktop web front-end to Youtube. I'm not sure whether it blocks in-stream ads (and I'm not turning off Ublock to find out), but it does basically reimplement the Youtube interface without many of its undesired elements.
Two things. First is that your link doesn't work. It's bringing it to a lemmy link and then it crashes because it 'could not find post'. Remove the lemmy stuff in the front.
Second is that I fail to see how this website is even remotely better. While YouTube has overdone itself on some features, I don't understand how removing every feature that has ever existed is any better. The website looks like utter garbage. The fact that it's not broken up by anything, the fact it has such a simple one color background, and the like 10 pixels border of each video this whole thing just becomes a clusterfuck that's difficult to look at. My eyes immediately start to glaze over and defocus because what the hell am I supposed to focus on?
Youtube has some serious issues, almost all of them gained since Google purchased the site, but this is actively worse. It's just Angelfire Youtube. A clunky chaotic mess that has no idea what it's trying to do. It claims that it's to be 'efficient' but it actively hurts to read the comments. They're all the same font and same color. The author is bold but that just adds to the sea of white nonsense.
Sure. They may have stripped away everything from youtube to make it 'efficient' but they also managed to strip away any basic visual design that lets users process information more easily. I'm not talking extra features. I'm talking simple shit like choosing how much space is available for this specific block, what font to use, what color should that font be, the spacing between videos or blocks, etc.
I mean, you're not necessarily wrong,, but for some people that is kind of just the appeal. It's very obviously targetted at a very niche group of people, and if you're not in that, of course you'll dislike it