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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

by gizdan 5y ago

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-redirect/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/privacy-redir... [1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/pmcmeagblkinmogikoikkdjiligflglb https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/privacy-redirect/p...

mrzool 5y ago
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.
- gizdan 5y ago
  Try setting quality to dash. This fixes the issue for me quite often, though not all the time.
  - mrzool 5y ago
    Thanks for the tip! I’ll give it a try.
    - jerheinze 5y ago
      Also try to alternate the instances, always solves it for me.
brnt 5y ago
+1 for the Privacy Redirect plugin. Makes using Invidious (and some other platforms) a breeze.
- MayeulC 5y ago
  The killer feature for me is that it also replaces embeds :)