My son's group in middle school hosted their own proxy overseas. They then pirated a whole bunch of educational videos that the teachers liked to use and made nice clean interface. The games pages had no direct links on the educational videos screens. They had to type in the the page directly in the URL.

So the teachers all loved the site and gave the official "approved for all students" bypass on the districts Chromebooks. The kids had uninterrupted access to all their games.

The kids were smart enough to keep the location of the games to students with a B or higher GPA. Most of the teachers turned a blind eye to them playing games when they did get caught. The games pages also had a home button that sent the students screens to a random educational video. I was truly impressed with their clever approach.

The IT department either never caught on or enjoyed the games themselves because its still up and they are all in highschool now.

A friend and I became unofficial TAs for a high school computers class when we defeated the remote-viewing software and any web blockers, we knew more than the poor teacher and it was easier to let us do what we wanted if we promised to help other kids do the actual lessons.

That network had terrible security. So many important files stored as unprotected text in the intranet.

I remember when proxies were easy to find and you could get to the most ridiculous stuff. We had college intern system admins for IT at our HS so it was easier to get by alot of things most of the time.

You could theoretically host a Piped API instance, and use it to get channel info. I guess you are already using your own SSL certificates, judging by what you are trying to accomplish.

This is the Piped org btw: https://github.com/TeamPiped

It is a YouTube frontend/proxy.

Edit: I made a post on Piped's community, so we can discuss it there: https://discuss.online/post/16448014

I'm planning on building a server that rips channels videos and they can have the app for that.

We are a no YouTube without our explicit permission on the video kinda household. Too much actual brainrot. And as much as I don't like Television, at least my kids are mentally protected from bullshit with the Children's Television Protection Act.

I would've hated dealing with this as a kid.

same, except i would love to bypass this as an adult

Even then. My mother followed a YouTube video on this including the part where the helpful Indian guy had her download an app and set up a very sketchy VPN.

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