Heads up w/ Youtube front-ends:
Invidious doesn't work right now,
But FreeTube does
Note: A lot of the same videos are on Odysee, and you can use farside.link to serve you new front-end instances. So it’s quite possible you don’t even need Youtube, but if you do then:
FreeTube is a desktop app getting it directly from Google, (so it doesn’t hide your IP), while as before:
Invidious was a website viewed in a browser, that’s hosted on a VPS. The community volunteer VPS hosts and official team are trying to resolve the issues Google’s purposefully created to force views of ads and do surveillance.
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2024-10-03 17:17:14
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2024-10-03 17:17:14Event JSON
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