Videos
Invidious
If you like watching videos with advertising, corporations recording your watching history, and algorithmic censorship and nudging of videos to watch, go to youtube.com.
If you want to watch Youtube anonymously without any advertising, algorithmic censorship, or corp/gov tracking, go to https://invid.peoplever.se.
Unique Features of Invidious
- You can download any videos or music to your device.
- You can manage subscriptions and/or subscribe to channels via RSS. Your subscriptions and watch history are stored only on this private server rather than with Youtube/Google. As alternative to creating an account, you can add the RSS feed to your RSS reader of choice.
- No algorithmic manipulation of your feeds. Youtube is notorious for censoring and taking down videos the government wants hidden. They do allow some controversial content, but they will algorithmically censor it by making it hard to find in search results and not recommend it in people's feeds. Invidious subscriptions mitigate some of this by allowing a chronological feed.
How to create an account
Although anybody can watch videos here, I don't leave the server open for anybody to create an account. If you want to create an account, instant message me with any method listed on my web page. I will open up the server for registration and tell you to create your account.
I have been having difficulty with upgrading Invidious and have had to delete and reinstall it which wipes out accounts and subscriptions. To protect your subscriptions if I need to do that again, occasionally backup your subscriptions in the settings.
Apps for Invidious
You can find various apps that can connect to this instance https://invid.peoplever.se:
Desktop/laptop
https://freetubeapp.io Enter the instance in the settings.
Browser Plug In
You can automatically redirect any Youtube videos on web pages you open to this invidious instance by installing the browser plug-in called Lib Redirect. Add this instance in settings.
TV
Kodi.tv
https://kodi.wiki/view/Add-on:Invidious Login to your account is not possible, and features are limited. You can search and find media you want.
Roku
The Playlet app is very nice.
Android
https://search.f-droid.org/?q=invidious&lang=en
IOS
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/yattee/id1595136629
Other platforms and apps for videos
Peertube
This is decentralized video content SW that anybody can run to host and share videos. I might setup one of these instances, but you can search for videos from all the instances at https://sepiasearch.org/.
Rumble
https://Rumble.com is currently a great alternative to Youtube since they censor very little. This is one of the best places for more political content or anything contentious.
Odysee, Rokfin, Bitchute also host less censored content.