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Suggestion for an invidious alternative (lemmy.eco.br)

submitted 13 hours ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I had an idea for an Invidious alternative that would be pretty difficult for YouTube to block. Basically, YouTube can block instances because it is really easy to detect which IP is making a lot of requests. But what if everyone using Invidious were an instance? Like, if one person wants to watch a video, they would get it from a random person using this software. I don't really know how it would be done—if it would be something like torrents, which have a direct connection, or if it would go through some server in the middle. This is just a suggestion; I don't really know how I would implement it. But if it can be done and someone wants to do it, it would be great.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

GrayJay works fine for me

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 hours ago

Some YouTube clients allow "local extraction" (FreeTube and LibreTube, to name a couple), which sidesteps the need for an instance altogether. However, that then means either 1. You use a VPN to hide your IP from YouTube and risk getting the VPN server IP banned or 2. You don't use a VPN, expose your IP to YouTube, and have a (small) chance of banning your own IP.

The best alternative would be to remove YouTube altogether and switch to something like PeerTube or Odysee, but you can't expect all your favorite creators to be there.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Do I understand correctly, what you mean is that there is an Invidious instance to which two users are connected. User A sends request to Invidious to get a video, Invidious forwards it to user B, user B downloads the video and sends it back to user A?

Sounds a lot like Tor or maybe I am missing something?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 13 hours ago

Yes, it's basically like it, but i don't think it would be possible just from a web browser

[–] [email protected] 5 points 12 hours ago

I think this is absolutely doable to problem is you need to have enough users on all the time to make this sort of thing work soa doptionn is important. You could probably piggy back off existing open source projects to get it going.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 13 hours ago

So, kinda like a cross between FreeTube and Torrent? Interesting idea...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Kinda sounds like you're describing Tor

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 hours ago

Thinking about it, this really looks similar