As of late, invidious has become pretty much unusable for me. All the instances either don’t work or are very slow, and as nobody knows Crystal more and more bugs keep cropping up (e.g. right now search is broken on all instances).

Are there any alternatives? I know of FreeTube but its client is Electron which is a no-go for me. I also know of youtube-dl, but I’m more interested in a website I can use to watch YouTube while proxied.

  • nogerine
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    4 years ago

    Is it that bad, though? The search works just fine (tested on https://invidious.snopyta.org and a local instance). The slowness is a bummer when using the remote instance, but a local one is blazing fast.

    A real problem may be that it connects your browser to googlevideo.com, from which it gets the video contents.

    • ssenecaOP
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      4 years ago

      Ah yeah snopyta’s is working now, it was broken for a while though. And anyway, like you said, it’s so slow.

      The connection to googlevideo.com is an issue, and that’s why I only really use invidious with the Proxy video option enabled. That’s why I don’t run a local instance.