What's the point of self-hosting YouTube frontends? reddit / selfhosted ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illuminated_Humanoid · 2023-10-29 19:25 Okay, before you downvote me, hear me out. I self-host quite a bit of services and am knee-deep in this hobby, like many of you are. I try my best to analyze what makes sense to self-host and what doesn't just so that I don't jump the gun and switch everything over to self-host just for the sake of doing it. I try to focus on what brings value to the table and what doesn't, and I just cannot see the value in self-hosting YouTube front ends. I tried my best to like it and force it on myself for several weeks, but it seems to hinder and ruin the YouTube experience rather than enhance it for me. I find extensions on desktop such as YouTube Enhancer paired with AdBlock is a more enjoyable experience, and on mobile I prefer to use ReVanced. I feel these options are superior to piped/invidious etc. So tell me, I'm curious. Why do you bother to self-host YouTube when there subjectively appears to be better options? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital-Chupacabra · 2023-10-29 19:35 As someone who is in the midst of spinning up a few frontends to test out here is why: * As of late i've found YouTube to be increasingly unusable. They currently have the upper hand in the ongoing ad vs. adblock war and it's a crap-shoot as to if I can watch a video with uBlock origin. * It's a crap-shoot if I can use Firefox to with uBlock origin disabled to watch a video. * The recommendations have gotten progressively worse. They increasingly funnel disinformation and hate speech at you, especially YouTube shorts Who knows what fresh hell will be unleashed with the next unannounced tweak to YouTube, I personally need off the ride. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ovizii · 2023-10-29 19:38 I'm asking myself the same question and for now I am trying out other, freely accessible YT frontends rather than hosting my own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SillyLilBear · 2023-10-29 19:40 >recommendations have gotten progressively worse This has been my grief for ages. I get recommended 5-10 year old videos, videos I watched 2 days ago, and when I hit refresh for new recommendations, it's 80%+ the same videos. It's maddening, recommendations are absolutely useless. How are you solving this? I have been playing around with freetube and invidious, but that just recommends from your subscriptions as far as I have seen. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital-Chupacabra · 2023-10-29 19:59 Haven't solved it yet, just deployed a bunch of front ends from [this list](https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends#youtube) realized I should eat some food and will start testing them out this week. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- reddittookmyuser · 2023-10-29 20:07 How do front-ends improve recommendations? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kagayaki · 2023-10-29 20:17 What I need from youtube these days is pretty minimal. I don't really do much beyond watching videos and make the VERY occasional comment. I basically just have a youtube account for my subscriptions. I eventually landed on a self hosted Invidious instance in part because I can have an invidious account and have my subs on my own instance. I was using Freetube for a time but I like the website model so I don't have to worry about syncing subs from one computer to another. I suppose maybe youtube has better recommendations than Invidious does, but shrug. I'm probably subbed to enough channels as it is. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital-Chupacabra · 2023-10-29 20:23 It's decoupled from YouTubes recommendations. I haven't really "solved" that part, so I am all ears. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- reddittookmyuser · 2023-10-29 20:33 I'm the same boat. I don't there's really a better alternative to YouTube's own recommendations unless someone builds something akin to sponsorblock that relies on user feedback then again the userbase is so small and self selective that it would rapidly grown into a eco- chamber. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 20:41 Block ads at DNS level, nothing youtube can do about that. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- emprahsFury · 2023-10-29 20:43 Spin one up and let us know how it goes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 20:45 It's worked fine for me for literally years ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KurtUegy · 2023-10-29 20:46 They serve it from their servers. No way to block at DNS level, AFAIKT. Happy to be wrong, though. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 20:48 IDK man I run pihole on my network and Adblock on Firefox and I do not get Youtube ads. Not sure who is responsible for this state of affairs, but I don't see them. I use SmartTube or whatever it's called on my TVs which also skips Youtube ads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- itsonlybarney · 2023-10-29 20:51 Pihole is certainly not responsible for blocking the ads. Definitely Adblock ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some-Dare5179 · 2023-10-29 20:53 Adblock on Firefox is what's preventing your YouTube ads, not pihole ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 20:57 Like I said it's literally worked for years and I do not care enough to go look at the specifics. Not sure why OP needed to start a thread about how they do not know how to use the world's most popular ad blocking software to block ads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 20:57 The world's most popular ad blocking software blocks ads? Shocking information ---------------------------------------------------------------------- fideli_ · 2023-10-29 21:01 The point you're not getting is that it's not blocking at the DNS level as you suggest in your comment. It's AdBlock in your browser that's blocking YouTube ads. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- HellDuke · 2023-10-29 21:01 Ah crap, that was the only thing that was relevant to me as a YouTube user. Generally I just watch what it's my subscriptions and don't even bother with recommendations, but after trying to start using those it seems like the recommendations are very sparse. It feels as if they started pruning your data a lot more heavily from their algorythms ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Digital-Chupacabra · 2023-10-29 21:07 I run [AdGuard](https://github.com/AdguardTeam/AdGuardHome) on my home network along with uBlock origin in all my browsers, and still. Things will likely shift in the coming weeks/months as uBlock and others figure a solution to the new ad system YouTube is rolling out. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 21:08 The point you're not getting is that this is such an easy task to accomplish I forgot the details of it because it's been working for literally years. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lev400 · 2023-10-29 21:11 This is correct. I run AdGuard Home DNS but it does and can not do anything to stop YouTube ads on iOS YouTube clients. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Some-Dare5179 · 2023-10-29 21:16 You were the one confused, not me. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- KurtUegy · 2023-10-29 21:22 Well, as others pointed out, I meant specifically DNS rules. Regarding AdBlock, this is also getting more difficult. YouTube started in May to test new JS code. Rollout will likely be soon, and then AdBlock users will also have a hard time. Let's see. Check this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/youtube/s/bHRMrISzmd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 21:28 Hey bro, I'm not the one watching youtube ads ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Other-Technician-718 · 2023-10-29 21:29 At the moment youtube is getting more and more aggressive with blocking users with adblockers. I used to use AdBlock plus on youtube - until the gave me popups and threatened to block me when I continue to use an adblocker. I also use pihole as DNS, that does nothing here as all is served from youtube. And they roll that popup stuff out in waves so not everyone is getting the same un-experience. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 21:29 Sounds scary, but I've never see a youtube ad so I have faith in the autists who keep up the block lists. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dschaper · 2023-10-29 21:30 Hi, Pi-hole co-founder here. Pi-hole doesn't block YouTube ads. It's #1 in the FAQs. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 21:30 TBH I watch most youtube on my plex, which just downloads playlists/channels using youtube-dl. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omni__Owl · 2023-10-29 21:34 Here is a use-case that I could see be a good way to do things: * You use something like [GrayJay](https://grayjay.app/) to follow your creators. Regardless of platform (that's the point of GrayJay). * You make and spin up a server whose only job is to take info from that GrayJay account and use whatever available methods you have to rip the video content. Whether that be YouTube, Twitch archives, etc. * You upload that content to your own YouTube run service. * You use an app to access your self-hosted YouTube. Now you have basically only what you want on one service and you have only the newest content as well. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lachlan-00 · 2023-10-29 21:40 I use invidious https://invidious.io/ I've found that I use youtube more now that I dint need to use the main site. I even set up Redirection on my desktop so youtube links go to my own instance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 21:43 we already established adblock did it but thanks for chiming in bro ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dschaper · 2023-10-29 21:46 I'm not your bro, guy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dyslexic_jedi · 2023-10-29 22:23 I wrote my own YouTube archival and player site. Partly because F@ck YouTube and partly just for fun. I’ve needed to work on projects outside of work and this was the perfect excuse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- dungeonchurch · 2023-10-29 22:27 hey guy, i don't want you as a bro anyways ---------------------------------------------------------------------- trisanachandler · 2023-10-29 22:28 The fact that it only recommends my subscriptions to me helps me not end up in a rabbit hole and gives me more free time. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SillyLilBear · 2023-10-29 22:39 You can use popular tab, which only shows stuff from subscriptions (at least with free tube). I want new recomendations based on what I like, trending is trash and I generally keep up with what I care about with my subscriptions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Niarbeht · 2023-10-29 22:50 >The recommendations have gotten progressively worse. They increasingly funnel disinformation and hate speech at you, especially YouTube shorts You have *no idea* how many times I've hit the "do not recommend this channel" button. Thanks to some bugginess in how Shorts scrolls, though, this means I've hit "do not recommend" and wound up blocking channels I actually *wanted*, but I have no idea how to find the list of things I told it to not recommend! Youtube is kinda trash in a bunch of ways. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spacemanza · 2023-10-29 23:16 I hate YouTube thumbnails ---------------------------------------------------------------------- I_Arman · 2023-10-29 23:18 I loath YouTube Shorts. Most of them are either chopped straight off another service, or they are edited versions of existing content. They are hard to share, hard to stream, you are forced to click on them to play them or they'll skip to the next 5 seconds in, they loop endlessly... 100% garbage. I would downvote them all to oblivion, but we *don't have a downvote button any more* ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DazzlingTap2 · 2023-10-29 23:19 Unless you've been living under a rock, YouTube has been cracking down on adblockers like Ublock origin and they are persistent with it. I have gotten it before, but ever since I used firefox and religiously purge cache and update filters for the past 2 weeks and I've never gotten anything, but same cannot be said for some people. And you should remove YouTube enhancer as I've heard it interferes with Ublock Origin and cause YouTube detection. They are doing AB testing and they'll hit you eventually. But I do agree revanced is the superior option. So why use or selfhost invidious/piped? There are public instance for both, but these could be unstable, slow. When I tried piped, found a good instance then a day later, gone... Also most instance do not support 1080p or fail to play copyrighted material (eg. music video, film trailers), as you'll have to enable DASH to fix these problems but not all instances support it. Selfhosting a private instance you can have fast access without overburdening to the free public servers. I've been thinking about hosting it but I think the single arm core on Oracle cloud cannot handle it. Also a technically savvy person will follow r/uBlockOrigin and update filters but your parents/SO probably thinks it's too much work, so a alternative frontend + privacy redirect extension is a good set and forget option when setting up their stuff. Tldr: sooner or later, the subjectively better option on desktop might stop working and it's time to look for alternatives. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- damo_w15 · 2023-10-29 23:19 I'm with you - genuinely believe that there comes a time when "can I self-host this" needs to draw a line. Personally I have YouTube Premium (it's the only subscription service I pay for) but Firefox to with uBlock Origin is just as good. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kidab · 2023-10-29 23:27 Are you aware of any that actually work? I've dabbled with Peertube and found that its way over engineered if all you want is a self hosted service to watch music videos... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Redneckia · 2023-10-29 23:28 I use unlock origin together with sponsorblock in Firefox and revanced on Android and I don't need anything else, I haven't seen a YouTube ad in months ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ampix0 · 2023-10-29 23:50 Edgy anti-youtube irony ---------------------------------------------------------------------- arcaneasada_romm · 2023-10-29 23:53 This is exactly the route I took, and I find invidious's recommendations, while not as good as youtube's, are good enough to keep me watching without getting sucked into alt-right rabbit holes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illuminated_Humanoid · 2023-10-30 00:11 That's what im sayin my dude. Same setup here and not an ad for years lol. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- wenahs · 2023-10-30 00:51 Everyone should move their content to Rumble (or literally ANYTHING not owned by Google). YouTube has gotten too big for itself and is trash/unusable. On mobile I just VPN to Albania. Apparently they're not allowed to force ads there. On PC I will use uBlock and/or Sponsorblock until it's broken then I will find my tutorials elsewhere. I refuse to pay for a terrible product just because it's the only thing out there. Enough people say enough and they will improve or something else will rise up. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarkKnyt · 2023-10-30 01:43 I have a kid and I don't want them to see the toy commercials. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Charming-Molasses-22 · 2023-10-30 02:08 What is the point of self-hosting anything? I personally do not like feeding the Google algorithms my internet usage habits but you do you. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illuminated_Humanoid · 2023-10-30 03:28 C'mon now. There is certainly a difference amongst the spectrum of options. Self-hosting your own mail, contacts, files, media, passwords, notes, website etc. I get all that. Hosting YouTube that does nothing but proxy a connection and often slows it down and regresses the experience? Seems needless and over the top but hey like you said, to each their own. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe_Isko · 2023-10-30 03:36 The main idea is to anonymize your youtube usage. Youtube is dead set on making you watch targeted ads. This means they need your identity and data from you. Because they want to make you watch their ads, they are going to start punishing you if you block them. Your computer is your property, and what it sends to your screen is your prerogative. The issue is that much of the functionality of youtube is hosted by google - playlists, view history, likes, etc. Furthermore, this data is connected to your google account. In order to use these features, you need to do what google says and watch their ads, or theoretically they could shut off your accounts access to maps, drive, gmail, and search. The idea behind self hosting front ends to these services is that you can keep using them, and use your own hardware to implement some of the functionality - save a list of your video views, keep track of your likes and dislikes - all while maintaining control over your hardware. This way you can control what you see without worrying about getting booted from youtube's services. Eventually, youtube will probably demand our identities to watch videos, and we will all have to make a choice about whether that is a fair trade. I have already started searching for other video hosting back-ends. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- angerofmars · 2023-10-30 04:09 For me it's simple, YouTube busted YT Enhancer and uBlock/Adblock/Adguard/insert-adblocker-name-here for me. I know uBlock Origin still works on and off but I don't have the time to take care of it, especially across all the different computers that my extended family use. Youtube front-ends hadn't been ruined by Google yet so for now I choose that. I might switch back once the war between Google and adblockers settle down. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- sevlonbhoi1 · 2023-10-30 04:13 >I find extensions on desktop such as YouTube Enhancer paired with uBlock Origin is a more enjoyable experience, and on mobile I prefer to use ReVanced. I feel these options are superior to piped/invidious etc. I think this won't go for long. Youtube will win this race eventually. I run youtube frontend so I don't have to rush to it when adblockers finally stop working on youtube for good. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Psychological_Try559 · 2023-10-30 04:37 I'm curious to read the responses, because it's one of those things I've seen but it's never clicked. Looking forward to what people come up with. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SysAdfinitum · 2023-10-30 04:46 Several years ago I worked for a company that blocked YouTube and Reddit on the company computers (shakes fist!). I had modified the firewall settings but got a message from SecOPS saying to set it back. SO Setup a YouTube front end in docker and ran through NGIXPM and CloudFlare. Then I wasn’t visiting YouTube or Reddit, I was just visiting another domain that wasn’t blocked. Also when working from home the computers allowed internal traffic so I could just pull up the IP of the front end and still wasn’t “visit” YouTube or Reddit. Now my current company treats us like adults so we can visit YouTube and Reddit to our hearts desire. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ozzeruk82 · 2023-10-30 04:51 Yeah I was the same no advert for maybe the entire last decade, but then about two weeks ago they put a warning up saying adblockers aren’t allowed, I could then click to watch. Since then normal service has been resumed but the “next step” for them can’t be too far away. I use YouTube-DL Material which passes videos to Emby or I can download direct if I want that. I think that will become my default usage plan if watching” direct “ on Firefox stops working ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CactusBoyScout · 2023-10-30 05:10 I just don’t understand how their recommendations are so bad. They’ll ask me if I want to watch the same music video I watched once over and over again for months. Or random car repair videos because I watched one for my car. Say what you will about TikTok but their content algorithm is so much better. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CactusBoyScout · 2023-10-30 05:12 I know they this is a self-hosting subreddit but you can still do the VPN to Argentina workaround to get YouTube Premium for $1.50 per month. That’s worth it to me to avoid ads on YouTube on any device. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- FlockSystem · 2023-10-30 05:47 What would you use for the second step? Is there anything supporting GrayJay already? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Verum14 · 2023-10-30 06:01 Actually kinda cool. Too bad I just left Android again tho ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cassian01 · 2023-10-30 06:56 I recommend NewPipe for the smartphone ---------------------------------------------------------------------- aaronryder773 · 2023-10-30 07:45 I have few questions if you dont mind me asking. 1. Is it a private instance or public? 2. What are the hardware specifications you're using for your instance? 3. How much bandwidth does it consume monthly? 4. How much does it cost? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- bavotto · 2023-10-30 08:43 I am a teacher and I don’t want to have my videos interrupted by ads in a lesson. I only use my school laptop for school, but I don’t want Google providing me with dodgy ads during my lessons. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cakee_ru · 2023-10-30 08:53 I don't have a google account, so I use Invidious to discover videos from channels that I follow, then download them with my wrappers over yt-dlp that imports them catalogued to Jellyfin. right now I have like 4-6 TB of YT videos cached. also I love the consistent UI of Invidious, without constant "new features" and popups. I'd love something similar for discord so I don't see popups for crap like "mega emojis" or whatever they call it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omni__Owl · 2023-10-30 09:05 Well that's the neat thing. Since you have full source access then it wouldn't hard to write software that does. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- cakee_ru · 2023-10-30 09:07 I know the question was not for me, but I have the exact same situation as the OP, so I'll answer, too. 1. Private. The reason is that I'm too paranoid for security and only have VPN access outside my network. 2. I have a whitebox, so hardware is quite common. 32 GB of ram, AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 3700 8/16-cores, Radeon 550 for Jellyfin encoding (I got it basically for free, it works great for encoding), 1 TB system nvme, 4 TB SATA SSD (2x 2 TB lvm stripe - basically SW RAID0) for hot storage - IO is amazing for me, processing about a million of 100 KB files was painless; and 40 TB of HDD storage for stuff like youtube. 3. I sadly have no stats, as I have an unmetered connection. all I can say is a lot, as I seed a lot of stuff for long. 4. it consumes about 40-60 W. price here is about 0.06 USD per KWh, so about 6 USD per month of electricity. the box itself I assembled myself, it took about 500 USD total over the years of upgrades. initial purchase was about 300 USD. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lachlan-00 · 2023-10-30 09:14 Public, I think I left registration open, but I haven't shared it anywhere I run all services off general hardware PC's from my garage. I have no idea what their general specs are. Web server, mysql server, file server, email then a general box for random stuff. It's 8-16gb ram on a hard drive or ssd with assorted CPUs. my bandwidth is unlimited so I don't track that. I'm pretty sure I'm the only one using invidious judging by the history on the main page. But I would already use a few terabytes of bandwidth a month without it I probably put 500-1000AUD dollars into hardware upgrades every 5 years. But I really only replace server stuff if it breaks or I have spares from something else. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- johnerp · 2023-10-30 09:56 Apply for a YouTube account in India, make up an address and use your credit card. It’s like 2bucks a month, no more adverts, use YouTube music in the car etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- katrinatransfem · 2023-10-30 09:59 I guess it is a difficult one. I do re-watch music videos. Those generally are the only type of video I rewatch. But if I watch a video on how to fix a particular issue on my car, once I've fixed it, I am no longer interested in car repair videos until I specifically search for another one. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- helphp · 2023-10-30 10:02 They say the definition of insanity is re-writing frontends over and over and expecting a different result ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omni__Owl · 2023-10-30 10:03 You realise that what I propose is backend yeah? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuffinator · 2023-10-30 10:12 How? I used to run invidious on my local server and only after a few days, youtube blocked me and invidious wouldn't work anymore. And that is with a dynamic ip that changes daily. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Cybasura · 2023-10-30 10:56 I hate youtube's incessant need to control every fucking factor of my goddamn experience on their website There you go ---------------------------------------------------------------------- farzadmf · 2023-10-30 11:30 Question about the last step: when you say "you use an app", what app(s) are you referring to? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omni__Owl · 2023-10-30 11:36 I think the self hosted YouTube I've seen usually have companion apps. But other web front-end 🤷 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- farzadmf · 2023-10-30 11:37 Thanks for letting me know ---------------------------------------------------------------------- akryl9296 · 2023-10-30 11:41 Is there something like GrayJay but not on mobile and selfhosted? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omni__Owl · 2023-10-30 11:51 Not that I know of. But since you have full source access what is holding you back? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- akryl9296 · 2023-10-30 11:56 I don't have the time, dedication or skill required to make something like that. Contributing eventually could be a thing, but unless a project like that already exists, I will not be the one to start it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Omni__Owl · 2023-10-30 11:57 Fair enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- DarkKnyt · 2023-10-30 11:59 Yeah especially if you are using personal account and those dominatrix leather ads come up mod trigonometry lesson.... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Icannotfindnow · 2023-10-30 12:02 This is the only reason I pay for YT Premium. I definitely need to figure this out for my home server. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- reddit_user33 · 2023-10-30 13:15 uBlock has worked flawlessly for me so far ---------------------------------------------------------------------- AffectionateCar7834 · 2023-10-30 13:40 I tried using it but it's ui is outdated and often crashes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Icannotfindnow · 2023-10-30 14:23 That is brilliant if you don't mind a couple of questions. * How do YT videos show up in Jellyfin? Are they under their own category? Collections - Shows - Movies - YT? * How are you scraping metadata for them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- MRP_yt · 2023-10-30 14:29 >Now my current company treats us like adults so we can visit YouTube and Reddit to our hearts desire. One of our clients has set their WiFi to be absolute dog-sh\*t. They set speeds to be so low, its like DSL. Good old 512k :) Reason you might ask? Staff won't watch YT or anything else streaming related. Speed just enough to send and receive emails. Every time i have to go and visit them, i am bringing my own hotspot. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- laterral · 2023-10-30 14:52 Why did they block you? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Lalaz4lyf · 2023-10-30 15:47 Not OP but I use [ytdl-sub](https://github.com/jmbannon/ytdl-sub). You can set up channels and playlists to scrape, set up custom or built in formatting for Jellyfin, Plex, Kodi, etc., and it can automatically delete videos that are a certain age to keep storage manageable. I have it set to move everything to a folder called "YouTube", have a TV show library setup in Jellyfin titled the same, and it displays each creator as a separate show. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- tyroswork · 2023-10-30 15:55 It baffles me that YouTube doesn't provide an option to disable shorts even on the TV app. I have no interest in them and they don't fit my screen properly, I have no reason to ever watch them. Why can't we disable them? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Ostracus · 2023-10-30 16:10 >Now my current company treats us like adults so we can visit YouTube and Reddit to our hearts desire. [Not everyone is.](https://www.csoonline.com/article/574613/hacked- home-computer-of-engineer-led-to-second-lastpass-data-breach.html) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- WildDogOne · 2023-10-30 17:59 I self host invidious for fun tbh. I like to build microservices, so it came naturally. But what I have noticed since I got invidious, with so much less bloat, the videos run much better (on my shitty internet) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CraZy_TiGreX · 2023-10-30 18:53 I will have a look when I'm home but one question first. Can I avoid login with this? I have yt premium, but my work don't let me log into YouTube, so if I see something I have to do if with ads, which is annoying AF. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lilolalu · 2023-10-30 19:35 Seriously? No ads no tracking from any device or browser? How is that superior to installing the solution on ONE browser? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illuminated_Humanoid · 2023-10-30 19:47 I don't blame you. It's all clickbait mouth wide open pretending to be shocked silly looking thumbnails these days. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Illuminated_Humanoid · 2023-10-30 19:48 Generally it's a cat and mouse game but yes you're right. I think if they really wanted to put a stop to ad blocking, they can. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lachlan-00 · 2023-10-30 22:43 Did you use that setup script? https://github.com/tmiland/invidious- installer That script didn't update properly so it eventually broke for me too and then I just manually set it up ---------------------------------------------------------------------- lachlan-00 · 2023-10-30 22:44 I don't have a youtube account. Just an invidious account on my instance ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SnooPets20 · 2023-10-31 00:40 I recently tried viewtube. The one thing I need it to do, display a subscription feed, it does poorly. I go to my feed on youtube, I see 15 videos uploaded today. I go to my feed in viewtube, there's like 2. Where are the other 13? I am subscribed to the same channels, I imported them from YouTube. I waited a day in case it needs refreshing. I unsubbed and re-subbed from some channels in case importing is buggy for some reason. The videos don't appear. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- utopiah · 2023-10-31 08:37 I've been using youtube-local for maybe a year or more now. "ruin the YouTube experience" is the point for me. Namely I do NOT want a "pleasant" experience because if I do, I'll spend hours and HOURS on that platform instead of working, going out, skating, etc. So... sure if I need to watch a video, it works perfectly but I'm not going to get ANY suggestion, no front page, no recommendation, no autoplay, etc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- spacemanza · 2023-10-31 09:16 and girls / insta girls / random girls. for no reason at all. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Stuffinator · 2023-11-03 09:54 I used a docker image for unraid. I'll give the install script a shot, thanks for the hint. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- kennethtrr · 2023-12-29 09:01 I tried it out but it has too much partisan media on it, it'd be fine if there was other content available to balance the scales a bit however I just don't see it. I've seen PeerTube suggested a lot on this sub, might be another contender. I also do find some satisfaction in using YT with UBlock and bleeding google a bit.