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 Just discovered Invidious 🔥
-YouTube without ads
-No tracking by google
-Subscribe to channels and playlists without a google account
-Higher resolution with DASH

https://invidious.io/ 
 It's a good privacy oriented front end. There's also freetube for a desktop app and new pipe for your phone if you're not already using those. 
 C'est bon 
 Vraiment. Aucune idée que ça existait avant aujourd’hui. 
 I also didn't know but that was all I could muster in limited francais  
 You can even self host it, from what I’m reading 👀 
 True. I love mine.  
 Does it use much more bandwidth than just streaming for YouTube ? 
 🧐🧐🤔🤔🤯 
 Very cool, whoa download videos is crazy.  Whats the incentive for people to host besides being awesome ? 
 Thanks for sharing 
 I’ve been looking for a way to get rid of my google account. I think I finally found it 
 It’s great huh? 
 Looks pretty cool. @weblax says that piped.video might be more private even 
 freetube is a desktop app that allows you to do it while also having a local list of channels you follow, history and bookmarks 
 Thanks for the recommendation. I’ll look for it 
 You can self-host it an run it locally:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J04-VZEKBco 
 I have to look into this. Thanks! 
 The instructions are outdated, but just follow their current guide, as I did when I recorded the video.
*check the description section of the video if you end up found this. 
 Thanks for the tip!
And thanks to all the contributors, I discovered a brand new rabbit hole to dive into 😅😅 
 Happy to share ! 
 Just tried. Very cool! 
 piped is better! Invidious is good but hits google servers directly 
 What does this mean for the user? Direct exposure to Google? 
 Invidious frontends by default do not proxy the videos. It gets the source video URL directly from Google. Some instances will allow you to proxy but need to manually set it.

Piped always does this, but there are still other merits to using Invidious depending on the situation (for example Piped requires JS while Invidious does not, and Invidious also works far better on Tor Browser). 
 Appreciate the info. I mostly use the NewPipe app and only recently discovered Invidious. I'll just use Piped if I have reason to access on desktop.  
 As in, no privacy or anonymity? 
 You can run your own on Umbrel. 
 Does that eliminate the issue? Wouldn't Invidious still need to source the content from Google servers? 
 Yes. Maybe I misunderstood. 
 i'm using FreeTube on linux, great experience for me, should also work on windows and mac 
 Better yet, go use a freedom/self-hosted solution or pay for YouTube. Incentivize better models. 
 New Pipe is Great, but Only works on mobile phones. You can use Invidious on a smart TV. 
 I wouldn’t mind to keep paying for YouTube premium if they weren’t so intrusive and not privacy focused. It’s time to ditch the google account for me 🤷🏾 
 Thx for sharing Maestro! Can finally listen to my daily dose of classical music... I'd recommend listening to some Bruckner symphonies 🙏🏻💪🏻 
 Glad you like it! 
 Sir, stop being so based, thanks 🗿 
 Don't know what to answer here... 😖 
 And it works on #kodi, as well. This way you can use it as a part of you home media center and ditch the youtube app on your tv for good. 
 I’ll check it out thanks. Seems like it works on tvOS ! Thanks! 
 Do you know if piped.video works on kodi as well ? 
 No idea, haven't tried it. 
 DASH doesn’t load for me for some reason 
 Try https://piped.video
Someone else suggested it in the thread. Doesn’t seem to need DASH to change resolution to higher than 720p 
 It should be extended to leverage on nostr for comments and subscriptions 
 And with Clipious there is an excellent Android app for your Invidous instance used on Graphene / Calyx. https://github.com/lamarios/clipious 
 Huh, great suggestion, thanks!  
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 brave is an option also as just an alt browser 
 The issue is the resolution. I can’t get higher than 720p when casting to the tv with brave+youtube. With invidious and piped I can get higher resolutions 
 It streams badly for me though. And doesn't save playback position. I don't understand why no one has done a nice CLI YouTube client yet. 
 Try https://piped.video 
I find it much smoother

There is also Yattee on iOS, tvOS, macOS which is a privacy oriented video player that works with the piped api or invidious api. Didn’t configure it yet. That one might be able to save playback position 

(I rather it not save my playback position than giving all my info to google 🤷🏾) 
 I was able to make yattee work. It saves video playback. I’ll write a note 
 There you go: this should solve your saving video playback issue

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 Interesting. Thanks for sharing. I didn't know about this 
 You digged up a good one! 
 Even if I’m running a vpn ?
So piped.video is better privacy. Do you know if you can have a resolution higher than 720p with it ? 
 You are welcome, friend 🤙 
 Experimenting with piped.video
Thanks! 
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