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Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by imglorp »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #47
fredley wrote: post #44

'Log in with Google' asks me for my google account and password. Wat. No. You should never, ever be asking people for this information, even if you're transparently passing it upstream. This is a tier-one no-no.

I am guessing that this service falls squarely into "prohibited by Google's AUP" and thus they don't have much of a choice. Either that or, to prevent clones like this one, Google has deliberately not exposed an API to do whatever this app needs to do.

Yep. Hooktube's been through this already.

https://hooktube.com/changelog

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by chacha2 »

Allezxandre wrote: post #31

While 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-...

Looks like everything wrong with the web. I'll keep the simple grid of static thumbnails.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by pjc50 »

timar wrote: post #40
pjc50 wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"play audio in background on mobile" is quite a big feature.

cant find it hm :?

First bullet point of the original Invidious linked page README:

> Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by nilkn »

Allezxandre wrote: post #31

While 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've been using invidio.us for months. It brings me back to a simpler time on the web. The interface is straightforward, does just what I need it to and not more, it doesn't relentlessly spy on me, and I can have a separate non-Google invidio.us user account (which, again, Google can't data mine, auto log me into, etc.). I've always figured it'd get shut down at some point. I'd actually pay a small monthly fee to keep access to it and avoid Google's official YouTube interface.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by mosselman »

jboynyc wrote: post #8

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/

I have used that add-on for a while, but half the time the video's stop playing after a while.

Instead I now have a youtube container and have set firefox to open all youtube urls in that container. That way all cookies and session are contained.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by mosselman »

jboynyc wrote: post #8

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/

I have used that add-on for a while, but half the time the video's stop playing after a while.

Instead I now have a youtube container and have set firefox to open all youtube urls in that container. That way all cookies and session are contained.

What you can also do is delete all cookies and site data when you close your browser and then add some sites to a whitelist (github, HN, etc) in order to prevent having to login all the time. In combination with a good password manager that shouldn't be a big problem anyway.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by robertoandred »

cameronbrown wrote: post #21
izacus wrote: post #18

So this allows free bypass of features that YouTube wants you to pay for via Premium subscription. Why is this acceptable for YouTube? Can we start building and publishing plugins that bypass paid subscriptions for other SaaS services here too? This is especially strange for music - music artists (in my experience) usually want you to pay for playing their music without video via subscription or by buying an album. T…

Piracy is a service problem. And so is adblocking.

"Piracy is a service problem." is an excuse thieves use.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by jszymborski »

I've been consuming my YouTube videos via RSS and youtube-dl these days. I have a little python script that collects the video urls from the feed, downloads them, and then NewsBlur notifies me of the new videos.

NewsBlur has become the way I find new academic papers (arXiv/journal RSS feeds), consume the news, webcomics, and YouTube videos.

Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube

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Post by cyborgx7 »

robertoandred wrote: post #58
cameronbrown wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Piracy is a service problem. And so is adblocking.

"Piracy is a service problem." is an excuse thieves use.

Copyright infringement is not stealing. It's as much stealing as it's sharing.
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