Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?

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[–] 158 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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 ).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    If it takes away the privacy, why do it at all?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    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.

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