Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by yarapavan » Thu, Nov 14, 2019, 2:27 PM UTC

Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
github.com

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#2

Post by kgraves » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:51 AM UTC

This looks neat! Without all the Google/Alphabet spying.

I’ve noticed that this project is written in Crystal, is Crystal production ready?

I've looked into it months ago and it seems that there are a lot of breaking changes on every release and this scares me from using it.

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Post by piecu » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC

Is it possible to display my "Subscriptions" screen from YT? That's the only thing I use to decide what's to watch next.

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Post by piecu » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:58 AM UTC

piecu wrote: post #3

Is it possible to display my "Subscriptions" screen from YT? That's the only thing I use to decide what's to watch next.

Also, what is registering for? Does it only save my preferences?

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Post by patchtopic » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 8:59 AM UTC

Looks great, except the search seems very limited.

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Post by bestnameever » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 9:06 AM UTC

We seem to be going from pirated movies and music to pirated youtube. Not really sure how I feel about that.

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Post by t0astbread » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 9:11 AM UTC

bestnameever wrote: post #6

We seem to be going from pirated movies and music to pirated youtube. Not really sure how I feel about that.

Does it hurt artists really? I imagine a lot of YouTube users use ad blockers anyways, so a lot of artists have switched to in-video paid promotions.

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Post by jboynyc » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 9:12 AM UTC

If you are using Firefox, there's a great add-on called Invidition that you can install. It redirects Youtube to Invidious and Twitter to Nitter.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/invidition/

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Post by cameronbrown » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 9:15 AM UTC

t0astbread wrote: post #7

bestnameever wrote: post #6

We seem to be going from pirated movies and music to pirated youtube. Not really sure how I feel about that.

Does it hurt artists really? I imagine a lot of YouTube users use ad blockers anyways, so a lot of artists have switched to in-video paid promotions.

Absolutely.

Source: I watch YouTube.

In all seriousness you hear creators talking about collapsing revenues due to adblockers all the time.

Bigger ones survive with tools like Patreon but if you're new with only a small fan base? (Artists will always create content, but they will always need to eat too.

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Nov 15, 2019, 9:20 AM UTC

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