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YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.
Vanilla Invidious currently doesn't work well,
so most hosters paused and/or gave up.
Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
here's the source code if you're interested:
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious
I've got big respect for Fijxu,
he's been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.
If you can please consider:
All the above can help Fijxu,
since currently he's mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.
This is the reason why I stopped to host my own. It's so painful to maintain
thats great ressources thank you!
I think the best thing to do is selfhosting your own instance :/ piped is doing a great job with their script to install with docker ! Yes I know this takes away the privacy feature allowing google to get your public IP and other annoying metadata... However all the rest works as expected !
It has some quirks right now though... But they are very close in solving the issue (already done with LibreTube ).
If it takes away the privacy, why do it at all?
its just the ip, you can use a vpn
Or use nadeko's onion service
No sponsors, no ads, customizable and watch YouTube videos without a premium account?
Edit1: Lighter UI
Edit2: There's a way to use a VPN and split tunneling but didn't dug that far right now. So it's still possible to have the privacy feature if that's against your threat model/privacy concerns.
And lighter UI. Pretty important for when you're on a system with limited ram, like the steam deck.