SimplifiedPrivacy.com on Nostr: Heads up w/ Youtube front-ends: Invidious doesn't work right now, But FreeTube does ...
Heads up w/ Youtube front-ends:
Invidious doesn't work right now,
But FreeTube does
Note: A lot of the same videos are on Odysee, and you can use farside.link to serve you new front-end instances. So it’s quite possible you don’t even need Youtube, but if you do then:
FreeTube is a desktop app getting it directly from Google, (so it doesn’t hide your IP), while as before:
Invidious was a website viewed in a browser, that’s hosted on a VPS. The community volunteer VPS hosts and official team are trying to resolve the issues Google’s purposefully created to force views of ads and do surveillance.
Invidious doesn't work right now,
But FreeTube does
Note: A lot of the same videos are on Odysee, and you can use farside.link to serve you new front-end instances. So it’s quite possible you don’t even need Youtube, but if you do then:
FreeTube is a desktop app getting it directly from Google, (so it doesn’t hide your IP), while as before:
Invidious was a website viewed in a browser, that’s hosted on a VPS. The community volunteer VPS hosts and official team are trying to resolve the issues Google’s purposefully created to force views of ads and do surveillance.