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YouTube has an extremely invasive [privacy policy](https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/10364219) which relies on using user data in unethical ways. They store a lot of your personal data - ranging from ideas, music taste, content, political opinions, and much more than you think.
Therefore, the app is using the [Piped API](https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped), which uses proxies to circumvent Google's data collection and includes some other additional features.
If you have questions or need help, please make sure to read the [FAQ](https://libre-tube.github.io/#faq) before asking for help at the community channels. The [Matrix room](https://matrix.to/#/#LibreTube:matrix.org) is considered as the main communication channel, all other forums or social media accounts are maintained by volunteers from the community but not the developer(s).
Whether you have ideas, translations, design changes, code cleaning or really heavy code changes, help is always welcome. The more is done, the better it gets! Please respect our [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube/blob/master/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md) in order to keep all interactions and dicussions healthy.
You can open and build the project like any other normal Android project by using Android Studio.
If creating a pull request containing code changes, please make sure to format your code with Android Studio before.
Please make sure the title of your pull request follows the [conventional commit types](https://github.com/commitizen/conventional-commit-types/blob/master/index.json) (e.g. `feat: support for xy`).
The most common commit types are "feat", "fix", "refactor", "ci" and "chore".
The commit messages however shouldn't contain any commit type, but only a short description of the change.
With NewPipe, the extraction is done locally on your phone, and all the requests sent towards YouTube/Google are done directly from the network you're connected to, which doesn't use a middleman server in between. Therefore, Google can still access information such as the user's IP address. Aside from that, subscriptions can only be stored locally.
LibreTube takes this one step further and proxies all requests via Piped (which uses the NewPipeExtractor). This prevents Google servers from accessing your IP address or any other personal data.<br>
Apart from that, Piped allows syncing your subscriptions between LibreTube and Piped, which can be used on desktop too.
LibreTube aims to protect the privacy of its users. [Our Privacy Policy](/PRIVACY_POLICY.md) gives detailed information on which data the app stores in order to work, how it is being used, and how the project protects your personal information. It is recommended to read the privacy policy of LibreTube as well as the privacy policy of the instance you have chosen inside the app.
