So invidious isn’t working well at the moment, neither is piped. So I’m wondering what the best options are to watch YouTube right now?
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Personally, I use it through Safari with Wipr 2. Wipr’s developer is pretty active and responsive too. Another option is using Adguard Pro. Vinegar is a good option too, but it’s developer suggests us to use a different adblocker and use Vinegar for it’s main purpose of forcing the native HTML 5 player. If you’re okay with Brave’s crypto shenanigans, it works well with YouTube too.
I use YouTube almost always signed out. Along with icloud private relay enabled, it does minimise the amount of data that Google can collect. I would prefer to use Invidious or Piped, but they bug out quite often with YouTube playing a cat and mouse game.
Searching the Video with Andi and watching it in the search result, anonym, sandboxed and random proxie, without ads.
in my experience vinegar was great but slower than wipr2
Orion browser works good for me on iPad, no ads for years
I don’t watch YouTube often but I’ve tried Yattee and had little issue with it. While it does use Invidious & Piped API’s I would argue it’s your best choice if your looking for privacy + native functionality.
Just self host invidious or use an invidious instance that is maintained? My self hosted one works just fine
Genuine question as I also self host invidious, but are they any privacy benefits compared to the official YouTube website (with vinegar)? I am assuming it is very limited as I am the only person using the instance, from my home ip address.
I do prefer the minimal ui from invidious, but the container occasionally crashes
I’ve noticed that when you play a youtube video WITHIN the Messages app, it doesn’t play ads. So you could text yourself a link to the video
In a browser? Via DDG works pretty well.
Has anyone created a PWA for YouTube?
Brave browser on iOS has ad block and can extract videos into playlist for offline viewing
I’m sideloading YouTubePlus IPA. I have tried most of the open-source options; however, Google captcha keeps causing issues.
Safari with AdGuard
Browser duhhh
