Invidious.io Reviews and details

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• Google Ordered to Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos

  For those who have not already heard of it, check out invidious: https://invidious.io/ A list of public instances (which you probably want to use if you're concerned about being identified) here: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago

• YouTube begins new wave of slowdowns for users with ad blockers enabled

  Going to drop this here for others who haven't heard of it https://invidious.io/ Now, how do we fix this? YouTube's ad model sucks. Their algorithm sucks. Their front page sucks. They've captured a bunch of creators though so often YouTube is the only place you can find someone. I want those creators to benefit from me viewing their videos. I want the fact that I view a video and like it to help other people find... - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Reviving decade-old Macs with antiX and MX Linux (2022)

  Sometimes a half-solution will do, like Invidious or Piped. [0] https://invidious.io/ [1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Tired of youtube ads ? just use Invidious ...

  Invidious has no ads. No need for adblocker. https://invidious.io/. Source: 5 months ago

• YouTube wants to get you watching more news from 'authoritative sources'

  You can find public instances but they are a bit hit or miss since youtube can often throttle those instances. I have it running on my home server (so not throttled) and am quite happy with the result. [1]: https://invidious.io/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Piped – An alternative privacy-friendly YouTube front end

  Invidious is a good piped alternative for those starting to look at this space: https://invidious.io/ Yattee is a good front end app for both piped and invidious for Apple TV (and iOS and macOS but I prefer the browser on those platforms). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Youtube not working on windows xp

  Let's be more clear than the title, the machine can run YT, barely It loads YT very slowly and the video even slower, I know about h264ify, but due to the old browsers I use, they are too old to support plugins, I can't use It. I know about invidious.io but the VP8/VP9 process It uses for video loading is still loading videos slowly, and makes them not play that well. Has anybody got any solution? (BTW my machine... Source: 7 months ago

• Anti-Anti-Adblocker uBlock filter to get rid of the annoying YouTube message

  If you're planning to setup a homelab, look into Invidious [1] or Piped [2] self-hosting too. Mix well with Tailscale (or your mesh VPN of choice) and enjoy. 1. https://invidious.io/ 2. https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube"

  I haven't seen it, but I use https://invidious.io. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• Google added a wait time to close the ad-block pop-up.

  It is limited to 720p unfortunately since I turned video content proxying off (It proxies all YouTube content like the metadata, comments, thumbnail etc EXCEPT the video stream itself, and Youtube requires a special player for higher quality DASH content) Since video proxying is insanely bandwidth intensive to thousands of people for obvious reasons, however there are other instances over at invidious.io that do... Source: 7 months ago

• Show HN: uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions

  Invidious - https://invidious.io - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/ Stackoverflow, also completely skinned down to just the content and nothing more:. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• 'America's Cultural Revolution', a new "anti-wokeness" book that is likely to become a pernicious go-to text for the right, and "the left ought to pay attention to it" says Ryan Grim

  I'd watch it from invidious tho. No need to give them views. [Invidious - An open source alternative front-end to YouTube]. Source: 9 months ago

• Why Yewtu.be Was Down?

  These are Invidious instances[1], which proxy Youtube content for privacy reasons, though the project is having some legal troubles right now. [1] https://invidious.io [2] https://blog.thefrenchghosty.me/posts/im-not-invidious/. - Source: Hacker News / 10 months ago

• If YouTube makes the adblock block thing global

  Https://invidious.io/ (I believe) is scraping the YT website and offering a video player using directly the video stream. Source: 10 months ago

• YouTube is now testing a "three-strikes" policy for adblockers

  Also, you can try to move away from youtube, using a youtube proxy https://invidious.io/. Source: 10 months ago

• LUNA VPN ins't working on IPAD

  Ah yes, DNS based blockers suffer from that. You can check if there is a Safari extension for adblocking, download Brave browser, or use Invidious (basically a private youtube frontend). Source: 10 months ago

• National Black Radical Organizing Conference hosted by Community Movement Builders: Connecting the National Struggle for Self-Determination with Pan-Africanism - Friday, 23 June, to Sunday, 25 June 2023 in Jonesboro, Georgia

  Tip for sharing yt links: use invidious & people can watch videos without google's ads or trackers. Also makes it much easier to download. All you need to do is replace the youtube dot com part, for example:. Source: 11 months ago

• To those upset with Reddit, join some of us leaving and going to squabbles. Details in comments. I’m sure it will never be Reddit sized but it’s already really fun. Great people there already.

  I run my own in Invidious instance and use Freetube. Source: 11 months ago

• Youtube is getting worse and worse...

  I've been using invidious.io for videos, and it actually is able to find accurate stuff instead of the pushed youtube crap lately. Source: 11 months ago

• Enlighten your liberal friends:

  If you don't want to let Google know what you're watching you can use Invidious. Source: 11 months ago

• TVO Today Live: Toronto Mayoral Debate [video of the TVO Mayor debate on 2023-05-25, complete with an after panel discussion]

  For those wondering, "yewtube" is an Invidious instance. Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. Using this helps prevent privacy and the tracking which Google partakes in. Source: 11 months ago