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You might enjoy invidious. It's a frontend for youtube that cuts 99% of the bloat and show videos directly in your html5 player. It even supports subscriptions
by f1refly 6y ago
You might enjoy invidious. It's a frontend for youtube that cuts 99% of the bloat and show videos directly in your html5 player. It even supports subscriptions without a google account!
- pixxel 6y agoIs it still running ok. Didn’t the main instance shutdown or something? Sorry, I forget the specifics.
- aarchi 6y agoI haven't had success with using Invidious. I'd love to ditch the YT frontend and tracking though. I have extensions that remove suggested videos on the sidebar, homepage, and during the video; as well as ads, comments, and product recommendations. I use YT in a Firefox container without an account that is separate from my other Google container.
- Nextgrid 6y agoYou can run your own instance; that’s what I do. Public instances tend to be overloaded or their external IP becomes temporarily banned by YouTube (since its traffic is obviously more than what a typical home would use).
- f1refly 6y agoThe instance of the original dev has shut down because he seized developement, but the project ist still doing fine. There's multiple public instances, but those are often unable to handle all user requests and get rate limited by google every now and then. I'm currently using invidious.tube, it has a good "real" uptime in my opinion (the site is up the whole time but might have issues like described above). I'm considering just self hosting should things get worse.
- pixxel 6y agoI see. Thanks for your reply.
- TobTobXX 6y agoFWIW you can also subscribe to YouTube channels / Playlists (IIRC) via RSS feeds. I think they removed the official buttons, but the links still work and are easy to forge by hand.