I use freetube without anything but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right? I imagine I’m going to need some kind of split for the VPN, where some apps don’t use VPN.
But even freetube is somewhat clumsy for queueing videos and proper theater mode without borders. Using Youtube is becoming more and more cumbersome lol.
I wish there was a simple executable that pre-downloads and buffers my youtube channel videos and then just launches an optimized local web server that has good UX.
but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right?
If I’m not mistaken this is incorrect, when you self host Invidious you also must host their companion tool to help skirt around YouTube’s blocking system.
You have to run this command on the same public IP address as the one blocked by YouTube. Not necessarily the same machine, just the same public IP address.
You will need to copy these two parameters in the config.yaml file.
Subsequent usage of this same token will work on the same IP range or even the same ASN. The point is to generate this token on a blocked IP as “unblocked” IP addresses seems to not generate a token valid for passing the checks on a blocked IP.
Documentation here is a bit outdated but I assume this is how it still works, just automated without the need to manually run their commands.
Huh, thanks. I don’t quite understand it but I guess a token makes sense. Similar to how I can use reddit with VPN when logged in, but not without. I don’t even have a youtube account any more though since they forcibly degoogled me by demanding my phone number.
Invidious or Piped.
Use a public instance or self host your own. Pair it with Freetube and you can skip in-video sponsorships/ads.
While YouTube has been making it difficult for these services to stay alive they seem to alway work around them.
Also Newpipe for mobile. You can find it on f-droid.
I use freetube without anything but the issue is that my VPN is blocked now, and a self hosted invidious or piped won’t help with that, right? I imagine I’m going to need some kind of split for the VPN, where some apps don’t use VPN.
But even freetube is somewhat clumsy for queueing videos and proper theater mode without borders. Using Youtube is becoming more and more cumbersome lol.
I wish there was a simple executable that pre-downloads and buffers my youtube channel videos and then just launches an optimized local web server that has good UX.
If I’m not mistaken this is incorrect, when you self host Invidious you also must host their companion tool to help skirt around YouTube’s blocking system.
https://docs.invidious.io/installation/#linux
Documentation here is a bit outdated but I assume this is how it still works, just automated without the need to manually run their commands.
Huh, thanks. I don’t quite understand it but I guess a token makes sense. Similar to how I can use reddit with VPN when logged in, but not without. I don’t even have a youtube account any more though since they forcibly degoogled me by demanding my phone number.
We’ll get there eventually. Google will just have to finish cracking down on DRM.
Brave will probably need to stop working before we finally put that much effort into it.
PC plus HDMI capture device plus com skip. You can’t stop us but man you can make it painful.