Piped
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Keywords: youtube, frontend
Train: Community
Home Page: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped
Added: 2025-10-02
Last Updated: 2025-10-24
An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
Run as Context- Piped Backend runs as root user.
Group: 0 / root
User: 0 / root - Piped Frontend runs as non-root user.
Group: 101 / nginx
User: 101 / nginx - Piped Proxy runs as root user.
Group: 0 / root
User: 0 / root - Piped BG Helper runs as root user.
Group: 0 / root
User: 0 / root - Postgres runs as non-root user.
Group: 999 / postgres
User: 999 / postgres
App Metadata (Raw File)
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}
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