![]() which is stripped away by the site and never presented to the user.ĮDIT: I missed onpon's reply, which is absolutely correct. Most users I think are concerned about cookies and other tracking info, logging, proprietary JS, etc. My main concern though is that I don't know to what extent Google/YouTube tracks access to the raw video files I mention above. For example, running the project locally will request videos/resources using your IP, which may be a concern for some folks. I don't make that the claim of anonymity on the Patreon site, although I probably could, because it would rely on some information that I don't know. Something that you might want to keep in mind is that currently Invidious does *not* proxy the video files, although this is the same for youtube-dl and probably every other project I can think of. are stripped away, so the only thing that Google/YouTube should see is a request from the Invidious server. ![]() The site acts in large part as a proxy, and potentially identifying information, such as IP, User-Agent, etc. Invidious itself does not pass through any information that I know of, unless of course you are using a Google account, which I don't imagine many people here are doing ). Using Patreon is an unfortunate freedom compromise, but a small one compared to how bad YouTube is for freedom. If someone else can afford to pledge $10 it will be fully funded. The only thing I don't like about the site is that the CAPTCHA required to register does not have an audio fall back for visually impaired users. An ideal solution would replace YouTube without relying on it. Replacing YouTube's front end with one that does not require nonfree software is good, but on its own this does not reduce Google's power. Sharing an link will be much less likely to guide someone toward nonfree JS.Īnother great feature would be either (a) the ability to upload videos directly to Invidious without going through YouTube or (b) aggregating videos from sites such as MediaGoblin instances. It's one thing to share a link and say "but don't click on it, use mpv/vlc/youtube-dl/youtube-viewer" and hope that they listen to you. This will also make it easier to share YouTube videos without potentially guiding users toward proprietary software. Although there are desktop clients that replace, they are generally missing features like suggested videos and subscriptions, and many users are so used to doing everything in their browser that they resist the idea of using a desktop client. Yes! Something like this could be used to make every page redirect to the page with the same information. ![]() This is the type of thing a GNU FSDG distro could even specifically send people to for videos.
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