Very useful - no ads and I can run it in background audio only on my iPhone just using the webapp.
Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
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Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#62Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Double standard compared to what?
Compared to any other service or product mentioned on this site.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#63How will this website not be killed by Google lawyers at any moment?
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#64Very useful - no ads and I can run it in background audio only on my iPhone just using the webapp.
It does not ask for a login.
Here is a full Pink Floyd album for your streaming pleasure.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=k_MP8URO-Xc
Works perfectly in a private safari window on my iPhone.
Great work!
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
It written right ther: > Terminations and Suspensions by YouTube for Cause > YouTube may suspend or terminate your access, your Google account, or your Google account’s access to all or part of the Service The question is why we still don't believe it even when it's written in black and white?
What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?
When regular users visit youtube.com, they get a page with some videos on it. Regardless of whether they're logged in or not, there are videos there.
Banned users visiting youtube.com will just get a text page[0] with zero video content. Google will use all the dirty tracking tricks to make sure that banned users remain banned even when their IP or device changes.
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
Piracy is a service problem. And so is adblocking.
"Piracy is a service problem." is an excuse thieves use.
I don't pirate and don't use adblockers.
It does not refute my statement.
The absolute state of the film/TV industry should be enough evidence that piracy is definitely a service problem.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is there to terminate if you browse Youtube without signing in?
When regular users visit youtube.com, they get a page with some videos on it. Regardless of whether they're logged in or not, there are videos there. Banned users visiting youtube.com will just get a text page[0] with zero video content. Google will use all the dirty tracking tricks to make sure that banned users remain banned even when their IP or device changes. [0] https://i.imgur.com/qTTGhhG.png
Please, do you know how to get banned from Google? I'd love to not be tracked by them anymore.
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#68I'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.
I didn't know arxiv had an rss feed, I usually find interesting papers through reddit, twitter and paperscape. Do you do any filtering on the feed to find the good stuff?
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#69'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 agree. Unfortunately OAuth is impractical for this project, as it requires registering your application with Google.
Instead I've done my best to make clear how it works[0][1] and what is stored[2].
As mentioned in a sibling comment Google does not have a good track record with similar projects. AFAIK the only project that provides similar functionality is youtube-dl[3], which works the same way.
Important to note is that this functionality is optional; you do not need to log in with Google to store subscriptions or preferences. The main benefit currently is that it will automatically sync subscriptions with YouTube, otherwise I would recommend creating a new account on Invidious and then importing subscriptions from YouTube.
0. https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/8wvazc/invidou...
1. https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/blob/8af87f1/src/invid...
3. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/blob/76e510b/youtube_...
Re: Invidious: an alternative front-end to YouTube
#70This 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.
Breaking changes have been fairly minor and I haven't found them to be an issue for the project. It's also possible to anticipate most changes early (compile with `crystal --warnings all`).
I'm not sure I would recommend it for something on the scale of Apple or Microsoft, but for a personal project like this I've found it a very enjoyable experience.