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AppSignal
AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed. Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
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uYouPlus
Discontinued uYou+ is a modified version of uYou (made by @MiRO92) with additional features and mainly made for non jailbroken users!
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real-world-onion-sites
This is a list of substantial, commercial-or-social-good mainstream websites which provide onion services.
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browser_extension
A browser extension that redirects popular sites to alternative privacy friendly frontends
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Invidious discussion
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Why is Google still serving dodgy ads?
Based on prior FBI recommendations to use ad blockers to keep yourself safe from scams[0], it seems that the various methods of blocking/avoiding Youtube ads should also be recommended.
Firefox + uBlock Origin
Brave Browser
Invidious: https://invidious.io/
Revanced: https://revanced.app/
[0]: https://www.securityweek.com/fbi-recommends-ad-blockers-cybe...
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Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
The solution is to run your own instance, create a few accounts for it to use and put it behind a reverse proxy with basic auth. Hang out logins to a few people and it will remain useable. Of you put your instance out in the open it will sooner or later end up temporarily blocked - I tried this for a few years, same results every time - but smaller instances remain useable.
It isn't hard to run an instance, just park it next to your SearXNG [1], Invidious [2], Redlib [3],PeerTube, ... instances.
[1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng
[2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
[3] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
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LittleSnitch for Linux
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.
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NewPipe: YouTube client without vertical videos and algorithmic feed
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/
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Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
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
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Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
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)
- Show HN: YouTube Audio Player
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YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads
This is why I use invidious. Much more lightweight without all the tracking and Google bullshit.
https://invidious.io
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Crystal 1.16.0 Is Released
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
- YouTube's New Hue
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iv-org/invidious is an open source project licensed under GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 which is an OSI approved license.
Invidious is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of Invidious is Crystal.
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AppSignal knows why the f*#k it crashed.
Stop vibe-debugging. Every exception, every backtrace, grouped so you see patterns, not noise.
www.appsignal.com
Review ★★★★★ 10/10