I like invidious.snopyta.org because its parent website seems to be a privacy focused organization, but is it actually good for privacy, and are there any other Invidious instances with good privacy track records?

    • AgreeableLandscape@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      4 years ago

      Other than Cloudflare instances (while we’re at it, AWS/Azure/Google Cloud hosted instances are also no-go’s), a major concern of mine is the instance maintainers themselves using it to collect data to sell.

      • TheAnonymouseJoker@lemmy.mlM
        5·
        4 years ago

        Yes, I did not mean just CF. Other instances should also be certainly avoided, but CF is taken lightly compared to Big Tech.

        Best way to view videos, honestly, is mpv + youtube-dl.

        Check format ID code using youtube-dl -F <VIDEO_URL>, and play using mpv --ytdl-format=<FORMAT_ID> <VIDEO_URL>. You can even Torify this if you like, or just download using youtube-dl like I do.

  • ufra@lemmy.ml
    4·
    4 years ago

    Would be great to know. It’s hard to imagine an established, reputable organisation getting behind a service that circumvents youtube tos.

    Without such guarantees it does ease the mind a little to see the community takes GPL violations seriously ( https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1456) but your point remains that what goes on over the fence on server with so much data is opaque to us and could be malicious.