Another tool battling big-tech’s data collection, malicious tracking and selling of people’s data like they were owned has been built!
It is Free Libre Open Source and covers the following:
- Privacy: Invidious protects you from the prying eyes of Google. It won’t track you either!
- Ethically designed: Invidious helps you regain focus through a humane-design — no more shall your day be wasted away!
- Accounts: Invidious allows you to subscribe to channels and create playlists, without needing a YouTube account.
- No Ads
- and finally, Invidious has a fully featured and documented REST API for developers.
You can help host it, or you can just use it.
For a starft I’ll jsut show the few simple steps you need to take to start using it.
First go on the site https://invidious.io/
Click USE Invidious:
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As a result you’ll be provided with a list of public and even TOR instances:
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All you’ve got to do now is chose one of them and…
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You’re in!