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thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 days agoMe similar. I do not use Invidious anymore (and it was not self hosted anyway), because YouTube often breaks it. But I use FreeTube a local account only (no Google) and it comes with SponsorBlock builtin. And I also mostly watch videos I am subscribed to. And I have my own CLI frontend in the terminal for yt-dlp: yt-dlp-lemon, which makes it a bit easier to use the features I care about. (Sorry for the shameless plug.)
thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
to put the “youtube often breaks it” into perspective. In the last 6 months, I’ve lost access to youtube for a total of 8 days, with the longest continuous downtime being 3 days. selfhosting it works fine, for the most part.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 4 days ago
You mean YouTube does not break self hosted Invidious? So they break the public most used ones then I guess. Right?
thejevans@lemmy.ml 4 days ago
That is correct. The public ones get blacklisted by youtube.