Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

  • delirious_owl
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    Is there any reason there isn’t a desktop app for this so all traffic comes from my IP only?

    Why does it have to be a web server infra?

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          You’re going to have hard time in life, if you only install software through the apt package manager

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            I only install software that is cryptographically signed. Apt is one. Yum is another. F-Droid too. Some tarballs and AppImages are signed.

            I won’t use brew or pip or npm or windows store or flat pak or any if these shitty stores that dont do basic security

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      Try Freetube.

      it will download the youtube page and remove trackers and telemetry. but google can still correlate traffic from ip to other identities of yours, I am not sure if by using invidious whereby you download the webpage from the instance and the video feed directly from youtube ( if you are not using proxy option in invidious) is more private than using Freetube and NewPipe which download both the feeds from youtube. only someone from google can tell if they track connexions to youtube “video servers”.

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        Are you nuts, of course they do! Even at least for security measures, like f.e. breaches.

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      Others mentioned Freetube, but note also that you could just host your own Invidious instance on localhost.

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        Yes but my point was thats very difficult compared to a native app without a web server stack