On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 11:19:58 -0700
Tom <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello Keith,
>
> Perhaps Invidious is what your looking for. It scrapes Youtube and
> provides a non-bloated standard HTML web interface for Youtube. This
> also has the effect of no ads not even video ads. Sometimes Google
> blocks an instance to just move to another one. Here are some working
> instances:
>
> "invidious.snopyta.org","invidious.13ad.de","invidious.ggc-project.de","invidious.honeypot.im"
>
> And here is a small userscript I made you can install with
> GreaseMonkey to auto-replace any youtube links with an invidious
> link. It also works on embeds.
>
> // ==UserScript==
> // @name Clientside_Invidious_loadbalance
> // @namespace efegtrhrhtj
> // @author Tom
> // @description Redirects youtube links to Invidious
> // @include *://www.youtube.com/*
> // @include *://www.youtube-nocookie.com/*
> // @version 1.0.0
> // @run-at document-start
> // ==/UserScript==
>
> var currentUrl = document.location.href;
> var urlArray = currentUrl.split("/");
>
> var invidiousInstances =
> ["invidious.snopyta.org","invidious.13ad.de","invidious.ggc-project.de","invidious.honeypot.im"];
> urlArray[2] =
> invidiousInstances[Math.floor(Math.random()*invidiousInstances.length)];
> var newUrl = urlArray.join("/"); document.location.href = newUrl;
>
Something I forgot to mention that Invidious's main purpose was to be
a stop-gap for watching youtube-content without being spied on by a
million tracker scripts and Google. Not being loaded up with spyware
also just happens to make the interface really lean and suitable for
older computers, as well as clean.
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