this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2024
23 points (96.0% liked)
Firefox
20384 readers
134 users here now
/c/firefox
A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox.
Rules
1. Adhere to the instance rules
2. Be kind to one another
3. Communicate in a civil manner
Reporting
If you would like to bring an issue to the moderators attention, please use the "Create Report" feature on the offending comment or post and it will be reviewed as time allows.
founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Google just wants you to submit to their authority and do things the way they want.
Invidious and Piped are great alternative front ends; no ads, no tracking, no algorithm, no stupid throttling.
Piped.video is the main Piped instance, and I’ve got Invidious running at ourtube.roguewave.observer
I used to self-host an Invidious instance on my home server for personal use, but at some point it stopped working and I haven't tried it again. I might give it another try along with Piped.
But as bad as YT is, by this point I have trained "The Algorithm" well enough that the home feed suggestions are pretty good at pointing me to stuff I actually would watch (mainly tech, science and engineering topics), I think none of the alternative frontend does suggestions, right?
That’s right, the tailored homepage isn’t present in Invidious.
I’m in the same boat of having educated the algorithm to fairly reliably show me things I actually want to see; I use my Invidious instance mostly as a backup for when the YouTube gods are in a foul mood towards Firefox or Ublock or the color of my shirt or whatever