I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...
Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
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Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
How exactly does that pay for YouTubes storage, bandwidth and transcoding costs? How does that pay for music artists which request that their music is paid for when people are listening to it in background? Why the wierd double standard with YT?
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#33While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#34While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#35While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...
I frequently watch YouTube over Tor, and they've started making me do lots of reCAPTCHAs and occasionally even rejecting me after I've completed the reCAPTCHAs.
HookTube is an improvement over the real YouTube interface in the sense that it never makes me do CAPTCHAs, except some proportion of videos don't work on HookTube, it just gives a black box saying "Watch this video on YouTube".
From a sample of 1 video that I couldn't watch on HookTube, it worked straight away on Invidious. So it's useful in that sense if nothing else.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#36This 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.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#37This 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.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#38While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...
Well that sounds horrendous.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#39If 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/
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#40While an interesting project, at first glance I don't really see what this front-end brings to YouTube compared to the original front-end. Speed, maybe? But this comes at the cost the UX. I would much rather see something like this implemented: https://uxdesign.cc/my-attempt-at-redesigning-youtube-for-a-...
"play audio in background on mobile" is quite a big feature.