Really impressed with Invidious!
I've been steadily de-Googling for privacy reasons, and self hosting what I can over the last few months. YouTube was one of the last services I used because there are a lot of content creators that only upload there.
Yesterday I discovered Invidious and got it hosted and I'm really impressed! It's an alternative frontend for Youtube that strips the trackers and ads out. You can also make a private account on your instance, and import your YouTube subscriptions, so you get a subscription feed, watch history etc all synced on your devices without having to log into Google which I really like.
I am running it in my Gluetun stack so it uses my VPN's IP address to request videos from Google, rather than my public one, which is another layer of abstraction to help prevent tracking.
I'm using the Clipious app on Android phone and TV which syncs nicely with the desktop webapp.
Obviously I only access my instance over Tailscale: hosting a public instance might open you up to legal issues (although if its behind a VPN, I guess maybe not?), bandwidth throttling by Google, and obviously other people using my limited internet bandwidth to stream videos.
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