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I can also recommend Invidious [1] as a Youtube replacement. It's effectively a proxy in front of Youtube, only loading the source data (i.e. the video) in its

I can also recommend Invidious [1] as a Youtube replacement. It's effectively a proxy in front of Youtube, only loading the source data (i.e. the video) in its own container. You can subscribe to channels via the builtin RSS functionality just like on Youtube. I use a redirector extension [2] in Firefox to automatically redirect any Youtube links to Invidious, since the signature for loading videos is identical. [1] https://www.invidio.us https://www.invidio.us (many other instances run on different addresses) [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirector/ (Pattern: https://www.youtube.com/** https://www.youtube.com/**, Redirect to: https://invidio.us/$2 https://invidio.us/$2)

jerf 8y ago
"It's effectively a proxy in front of Youtube," Then it will be killed when it gets popular, and is not a long-term replacement, because that's only dubiously legal at best (and I'm being generous there, I'd go with "not legal"), and the blocking-it arms race is going to be advantage Google. There isn't really a replacement for YouTube, because it's not a service, it's content.
- thefranke 8y ago
  True, this has happened with other similar sites before. The difference as I see it with Invidious is that it is an open-source project [1] that anyone can host. If the main page [2] goes down, you can divert immediately to an alternative host (take [3] as one example). All my RSS subscriptions are one search-and-replace away in my OPML file. [1] https://github.com/omarroth/invidious https://github.com/omarroth/invidious [2] https://www.invidio.us https://www.invidio.us [3] https://www.invidiou.sh https://www.invidiou.sh