Many YT privacy frontends are down it seems. YouTube is cracking down on these servers fast. Both Invidious and Piped services are not working now.

So how are you watching videos now? Just plain youtube[dot]com with unblock and VPN?

  • Daemon Silverstein
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    22
    ·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been avoiding Youtube content altogether, I ditched it completely.

    However, it seems like yt-dlp does the job even when all Indivious instances are being blocked.

      • Daemon Silverstein
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        7
        ·
        4 days ago

        Sometimes (although rarely) I watch some videos on Odyssee. I try to avoid it too, because of some of its downsides, but it’s better than YouTube because it has no ads, no need for login to watch, and videos can be easily downloaded without complains from the platform.

        However, yeah, texts are way better. Internet used to be textual. Text allows for personal annotations, just like the grand old book annotations.