Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube

Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by gizdan on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:28AM (#28593075)

Invidious is great! Google's/YouTube's heavy push to accept data collection pushed me to use Invidious full time with little regret*.

For those interested, you can use utilise Privacy Redirect (for Firefox[0] and Chrome[1]) to automatically redirect YouTube links to any Invidious instances. It also includes redirects for other OSS clients such as Nitter for Twitter, Bibliogram for Instagram, and others.

* The only issue I've had is that it sometimes refuses to play some videos because the media cannot be loaded. Not really sure why that is, but I'm willing to accept that over data collection.

[0] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir...

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...

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Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by mrzool on Monday September 20, 2021 @08:53AM (#28593258)

I love invidious, but this:

> The only issue I've had is that it sometimes refuses to play some videos because the media cannot be loaded.

Happens to me with lots of videos — about half the videos that I try to open if I had to guess. That makes Invidious pretty much unusable for me.

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Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by gizdan on Monday September 20, 2021 @09:09AM (#28593387)

Try setting quality to dash. This fixes the issue for me quite often, though not all the time.

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Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by mrzool on Monday September 20, 2021 @01:01PM (#28595995)

Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a try.

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Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by jerheinze on Friday September 24, 2021 @10:57AM (#28643320)

Also try to alternate the instances, always solves it for me.

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Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by brnt on Monday September 20, 2021 @10:17AM (#28594033)

+1 for the Privacy Redirect plugin. Makes using Invidious (and some other platforms) a breeze.

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Re:Invidious: An alternative front-end to YouTube by MayeulC on Monday September 20, 2021 @01:01PM (#28596005)

The killer feature for me is that it also replaces embeds :)

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