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Youtube won’t allow you to use an adblocker (unless it’s a good one that is capable of bypassing this)
The site it’s unbearable if you use it without an adblocker due to its invasive Ads. So whenever I want to use Youtube, I use Invidious instead.
Invidious
Invidious is a Youtube front-end. Basically Youtube without ads and trackers.
You can create an account with just an username and a password (no email required) and you can subscribe to any channel with this account.
In the settings (bottom next to LOG IN) you can click on “proxy videos” to hide your IP from Youtube in case it blocks content from your country.
Some instances allow you to download the video in different formats and resolutions
What you do is using the link that is more geographically near to your country
There is even an instance from India!
I recommend you to not use vid.puffyan.us and yewtu.be as both are very slow and stop working very often
Disadvantages of using Invidious
Try it before it’s too late
Youtube wants to shut down this site, even though nothing illegal has been done.
Good news is that it would be really hard to wipe up this project.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x...ource-privacy-software-invidious-to-shut-down
Links
Use Invidious
https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
Github project information
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
I’ve been using it since last year and has worked pretty well for me. There is a better alternative site
which I should make a thread about it in the future but I have to introduce this site to you due to how
much time I’ve been using it.
The site it’s unbearable if you use it without an adblocker due to its invasive Ads. So whenever I want to use Youtube, I use Invidious instead.
Invidious
Invidious is a Youtube front-end. Basically Youtube without ads and trackers.
You can create an account with just an username and a password (no email required) and you can subscribe to any channel with this account.
In the settings (bottom next to LOG IN) you can click on “proxy videos” to hide your IP from Youtube in case it blocks content from your country.
Some instances allow you to download the video in different formats and resolutions
What you do is using the link that is more geographically near to your country
There is even an instance from India!
I recommend you to not use vid.puffyan.us and yewtu.be as both are very slow and stop working very often
Disadvantages of using Invidious
- Site looks similar to the very old Youtube layout, so it may look ugly (also take in account this site doesn’t load javascripts)
- Even if you make an account, you can’t comment, like/dislike or upload videos. It’s for lurkers only
- It doesn’t bypass age restriction in some cases
- Sites obviously are slower than Youtube and sometimes these stop working. Consider that
- Videos on your home page are very tech related which may not be of your interest
- It won’t give you search suggestions below the search bar like Youtube and many other sites do
- Sometimes “next page” button may not work or appear. You can fix that by adding “&page=2” in the url (this doesn’t work for channels)
Try it before it’s too late
Youtube wants to shut down this site, even though nothing illegal has been done.
Good news is that it would be really hard to wipe up this project.
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88x...ource-privacy-software-invidious-to-shut-down
Links
Use Invidious
https://docs.invidious.io/instances/
Github project information
https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
I’ve been using it since last year and has worked pretty well for me. There is a better alternative site
which I should make a thread about it in the future but I have to introduce this site to you due to how
much time I’ve been using it.
