Invidious VS NewPipe

Because of the way shorts serves video the exact same way it serves any other video it sounds like a man-in-the-middle proxy server would be needed. which to enforce would still require per device config(loading corp style keys). A per device config that would probably be trickier than a shorts killer browser extension.

This is why DoH makes me nervous. Once the embedded ad engines(cough smart tv's) figure it out, we will no longer be able to mitm our dns services. Or to put it more plainly pi-hole will stop working.

An unenforceable option would be to st up an invidous type service. https://invidious.io/

My opinion on shorts is a little more generous, sure they are generally brain-cell destroying bottom of the barrel clickbait nonsense. But that can also be said about most of the rest of youtube. What I hate specifically is the shorts doom-scrolling interface. It turns out a "short" can still be viewed on the normal interface. So I use a browser extension to turn shorts links into normal links.

IME newpipe breaks at once every few weeks, presumably because underlying youtube changes / obfuscation. Or at least that was the case a few years ago.

I've had more success hosting an invidious instance and using the materialious client for mobile. And a bonus is that it comes with sponsorblock built in.

https://invidious.io/

People here might be interested in Invidious[0], a FOSS web frontend for YouTube. By default it shows 4 videos per row, but that can be trivially adjusted with CSS. It's a little light on features, but otherwise very customizable.

[0]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

Tried [Invidious](https://github.com/iv-org/invidious)? It's really lightweight. I host my own instance: https://iv.duti.dev and it works wonders (Librewolf with strictest fingerprint resist)

This is why I use invidious. Much more lightweight without all the tracking and Google bullshit.

https://invidious.io

If you're running or using Invidious [1] - a YouTube proxy service - you're running or using Crystal.

[1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious

I'm looking for an answer to that. https://invidious.io/ looks like what I want, but I haven't tried it to see.

Invidious is in a precarious position right now: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...

NewPipe[0] is a client for YouTube on mobile. It's available on F-Droid and it hides the ads.

There are some forks floating around which also include SponsorBlock, but I haven't tested them yet.

[0] https://newpipe.net/

APK download https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/latest

No ads, continue playing with screen switched off, download option, and i appreciate the lack of recommendations (This way I only see news from the channels I'm subscribed to and don't get drawn into a recommendation-loop).

I'm not sure what will happen to it once google enforces their developer registration thing [2]. I assume that f-droid and newpipe will still work on rooted phones, but in general I don't like the direction in which this is going...

[1] https://newpipe.net/

I don't use the Youtube app on mobile, precisely because I've been unable to block ads in it. Instead, I do one of two things: either pre-download the video with yt-dlp then copy the .mp4 to my phone and watch it with the VLC app, or else if there's a video I need to watch right now and all I have is my phone, I use the NewPipe app (https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe, GPL 3, has to be sideloaded because of course Google won't allow it in the Google Play store) to watch the video without ads. Every so often Google changes the internals of how Youtube works, and then NewPipe fails until they get out a new release, but it's been working fine for the past several months.