I think there is a firefox addon that does this. A quick search leads to this: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/invidition/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

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There’s an app for android that does a similar thing called “UntrackMe”

@sexy_peach@feddit.de is right, there are quite a lot of browser addons that do this for the viewer.

Personally, what I’d like to see is if the link points to youtube, the little “archive” buttons that pop up below the link form switch to being “invidious” buttons. That way users can encourage not sending people to google if they care about that sort of thing.

That seems like a good idea but maybe make it opt-in to avoid having to choose a default one and be forced to monitor its availability, or at least let the instance admin choose the defaults if they want to do so.

It seems unrealistic for the site to maintain lists of working instances. I’ve been using https://github.com/libredirect/libredirect, it supports a ton of services and instances and is actively maintained