In the lght of recent events (gloogel complaining about uBlock) I tried to investigate other available options out there. While Piped.video definitely works, it looks like it is only fluid for popular videos, and as soon as I want to watch something a little more obscure, it is basically impossible, I have infinite wheel spinning.

Have anyone here tried self hosting Piped/ Invidious, and could share a feedback about performance /usability ?

    • M500@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      I’m not sure, I have an old machine with 16gb. It ran fine in that, but I found a better solution for myself shortly after.

      There is an iOS extension that lets YouTube play in the native iOS browser. It blocks ads as well, so I just use that.

      The privacy focused stuff is cool, but I’m blocking ads and my watch progress is saved which is important to me.