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Invidious – Open Source Youtube Frontend

self-hostinghomelabdegoogling10 minutesDec 05 202320th post for the first anniversary of my blog, woop woop!Continuing on the theme of degoogling, which I described in more detail in this blog post ,this time I look at alternative ways to watch Youtube. Recently I cut down my YT intake significantly, but there are still great Youtubers that I enjoy watching, and their content is not available anywhere else, so I won’t be leaving the platform entirely. Fortunately, there are ways to watch videos without being too exposed to Google and its shenanigans.Le what is an Open Source Youtube Frontend?A few days ago, m0bi mentioned Invidious on Mastodon (toot in Polish). Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube that can be self hosted, and that combination of words raised my interest. There’s a lot to unpack here, so let’s dissect what exactly is Invidious.First of all, what is an alternative frontend to Youtube? Youtube, as every webpage has a frontend and a backend. The bac…