# Piped
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An alternative YouTube frontend which is efficient by design.
## Features:
- [x] No Ads
- [x] No Tracking
- [x] Infinite Scrolling
- [x] Integration with SponsorBlock
- [x] Integration with LBRY
- [x] 4K support
- [x] No connections to Google's servers
- [x] Playing just audio
- [x] Livestreams support with a quality selector
- [x] PWA support
- [x] Preferences saved locally
- [x] Multi-region loadbalancing
- [x] Performant by design, designed to handle 1000s of users concurrently
## WIP
- [ ] Login
- [ ] Comments
- [ ] Feeds
- [ ] 8K support
- [ ] Improving UI
## Development Setup
```
yarn install
```
### Compiles and hot-reloads for development
```
yarn serve
```
You can now make changes and see them as soon you save the file!
## YourKit
YourKit has given an open source license for their profiler, greatly simplifying the profiling of Piped's performance.
YourKit supports open source projects with its full-featured Java Profiler.
YourKit, LLC is the creator of YourKit Java Profiler
and YourKit .NET Profiler,
innovative and intelligent tools for profiling Java and .NET applications.