Invidio.us - youtube redirect site, AGPLv3, no JS required
> Tor Browser doesn't disable JavaScript in about:config at any security settings level. It uses NoScript, and changing Tor Browser's security settings updates NoScript's settings accordingly
Okay, I wasn't aware of that. Thanks for this information
> Watching videos via Tor slows down the network for others, so I wouldn't do so unless there's a particular reason you require that level of anonymity for the video you're watching
I see, there's surely people who need that bandwidth more than I do
Now this is good. Very good.
Well don't get too excited, everybody... hoping the opposite, i'm sure this site will get smashed by google pretty soon.
I mean come on ... google will NOT like this.
As I understand it, Invidious does not use YouTube's API, so it is not subject to Google's terms of service.[1] It's not different from youtube-dl in that it downloads YouTube videos without YouTube's API or web interface. It is different in that it *replaces* the web interface, so you're right that this could piss them off more.
Some videos are inaccessible with Invidious due to DRM. If Google put this kind of DRM on all videos it could kill Invidious, but if Google were interested in doing this they could already have used it to kill youtube-dl. I've wondered why they don't do this. I don't see any technical reason why they couldn't, so they must benefit in some way from allowing most videos to be accessible without DRM.
Indeed, I'm curious to see how google would react to a massive adoption of invidio.us.
But this has yet to happen.
What's even thousands of people off their database anyway?
Although it's not perfect (I often find videos not playing),
I use it quite often. And youtube-dl is a solid backup.