Invidious (front-end to YouTube)

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Invidious (front-end to YouTube)

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Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

https://invidious.snopyta.org/

https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/wik ... -Instances
Invidious features:
  • Copylefted libre software (AGPLv3+ licensed)
  • Audio-only mode (and no need to keep window open on mobile)
  • Lightweight (the homepage is ~4 KB compressed)
  • Tools for managing subscriptions:
    • Only show unseen videos
    • Only show latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
    • Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
    • Automatically redirect homepage to feed
    • Import subscriptions from YouTube
  • Dark mode
  • Embed support
  • Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
  • Support for Reddit comments in place of YouTube comments
  • Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
  • Developer API
  • Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
  • Does not require JavaScript to play videos
  • No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
  • No ads
  • No CoC
  • No CLA
  • Multilingual (translated into many languages)
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