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Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube

132 mentions on Hacker News by 88 people: 12 stories, 120 comments · first 2018-04-14 · latest 2026-09-26

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  1. …I've been watching youtube without ads on all Apple hardware for years. I use invidious as backend. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious Absolutely fabulous.
    comment by nntwozz · 2026-09-26 · in PipePipe: NewPipe hard fork implementing SponsorBlock
  2. …[1], Invidious [2], Redlib [3],PeerTube, ... instances. [1] https://github.com/searxng/searxng [2] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [3] https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib
    comment by Leonard_of_Q · 2026-09-05 · in Nitter has more working instances than before the takedowns
  3. Mandatory shoutout to Invidious: https://invidious.io https://github.com/iv-org/invidious An accessible interface to YouTube content without tracking, using a decentralized network of community-run instances that scrape, rather than…
    comment by nntwozz · 2026-04-14 · in YouTube now world's largest media company, topping Disney
  4. …trivially adjusted with CSS. It's a little light on features, but otherwise very customizable. [0]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by mzajc · 2025-11-26 · in Someone at YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled
  5. Tried [Invidious]( https://github.com/iv-org/invidious )? It's really lightweight. I host my own instance: https://iv.duti.dev and it works wonders (Librewolf with strictest fingerprint resist)
    comment by acheong08 · 2025-09-19 · in Ask HN: Does anyone else notice YouTube causing 100% CPU usage and stattering?
  6. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious Alternative YouTube front end
    comment by acheong08 · 2025-08-15 · in Show HN: YouTube Audio Player
  7. You might be able to rig something up with invidious? https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by NegativeLatency · 2025-07-31 · in Australia widens teen social media ban to YouTube, scraps exemption
  8. Maybe you could rig something up with invidious? https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by NegativeLatency · 2025-04-17 · in TikTok is harming children at an industrial scale
  9. …running or using Invidious [1] - a YouTube proxy service - you're running or using Crystal. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by the_third_wave · 2025-04-11 · in Crystal 1.16.0
  10. …[2] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/wiki/PO-Token-Guide#guide-p... [3] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4985
    comment by kuylar · 2025-02-13 · in YouTube's New Hue
  11. Market response: Searching: < https://github.com/iv-org/invidious > Playing: < https://mpv.io/ > Also, For Anyone's Info, black-on-red is impossible to read on monochrome displays. As with e-ink. Lesson learned as an anti-copy tactic for…
    comment by dredmorbius · 2025-02-13 · in YouTube's New Hue
  12. Invidious is in a precarious position right now: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...
    comment by piyuv · 2024-10-01 · in Juno for YouTube has been removed from the App Store
  13. …onto the next. There's a finite number of those. Here's a comment from Invidious on the matter: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...
    comment by mike_hearn · 2024-10-01 · in Bots, so many bots
  14. https://github.com/mendel5/alternative-front-ends Some of these are open source and easy to run, like https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by ethanol-brain · 2024-09-01 · in Freetube is the best way to watch YouTube
  15. …- Alternate front-ends such as a Piped (< https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped >) or Invidious (< https://github.com/iv-org/invidious >) instance. Both of these are increasingly attacked by YT, and Invidious largely doesn't play locally,…
    comment by dredmorbius · 2024-08-10 · in Ask HN: A friend runs ghostery, and now is blocked by YouTube
  16. …three times a month, youtube rolls out an update that breaks it. eg, last week (not yet bypassed): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734
    comment by ksherlock · 2024-06-12 · in Firefox and uBlock origin results in infinite YouTube ads
  17. …on the issue that suggest that this is impacting any YouTube user rather than just Invidious users: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...
    comment by ndiddy · 2024-06-10 · in Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"
  18. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious > Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube
    comment by avhon1 · 2024-06-10 · in Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"
  19. …but it is not in master yet. I tested it on my own instance and it does solve the problem. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4576
    comment by hagbard_c · 2024-04-16 · in Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
  20. …The more you tighten your grip, ${site}, the more viewers will slip through your fingers [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [2] https://github.com/searxng/searxng [3] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [4]…
    comment by hagbard_c · 2024-04-16 · in Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
  21. Not a direct equal but https://github.com/iv-org/invidious is nice
    comment by NegativeLatency · 2024-04-16 · in Mobile Ad Blocker Will No Longer Stop YouTube's Ads
  22. It's already fixed - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552
    comment by mappu · 2024-03-31 · in YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
  23. BTW, I don't understand the workaround: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552/files Which was taken from here: https://github.com/LuanRT/YouTube.js/pull/624 Could anybody explain it to me?
    comment by TheBozzCL · 2024-03-31 · in How Google fights Invidious (a privacy YouTube Front end)
  24. …For example: https://farside.link/invidious/watch?v=Ag1AKIl_2GM [0] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [1] https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped [2] https://farside.link/
    comment by someotherperson · 2024-03-23 · in Google ordered to identify who watched certain YouTube videos
  25. If you're into self-hosting there is https://github.com/iv-org/invidious which works great with https://github.com/yattee/yattee for macOS/iOS/tvOS. This combo is amazing, haven't looked back ever since I deployed it with docker. Hopefully…
    comment by nntwozz · 2024-02-02 · in Juno – A YouTube Client for Vision Pro
  26. …make this harder just like Xitter is trying to make it harder to use proxies like Nitter [2]. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious [2] https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
    comment by the_third_wave · 2024-01-15 · in YouTube is loading slower for users with ad blockers yet again
  27. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1438 I’m not the first one facing these issues.
    comment by acheong08 · 2024-01-15 · in Crystal 1.11.0 Is Released
  28. You can filter out shorts with Yattee https://github.com/yattee/yattee and Invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious .
    comment by nntwozz · 2023-12-30 · in Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels
  29. …is trying to block it [1], so many instances are broken now, which isn't a great experience. [1]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3915
    comment by notpushkin · 2023-11-09 · in YouTube's ban leads to a record number of users uninstalling their ad-blockers
  30. Ref for that: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3822 Who's winning, Invidious or Youtube? I'm something of a fan of PeerTube for distribution, but that's used by so few people that my tech demo graphics videos with a few hundred…
    comment by Animats · 2023-10-19 · in Instead of YouTube, use Invidious; Instead of subscribing to channels, use RSS
  31. There is an helm chart: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/tree/master/kubernetes
    comment by unixfox · 2023-10-17 · in Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
  32. …resolutions to work. It's not enabled by default because the server has to proxy the video (CORS): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/177#issuecomment-...
    comment by caeruleus · 2023-10-17 · in Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
  33. …never agreed to any of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API." [0] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872
    comment by EMIRELADERO · 2023-10-17 · in Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
  34. …I guess it's related to this issue, a memory leak (or probably multiple): https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/1438 Also interesting that the issue is almost 3 years old and mentions even older reports.
    comment by mpitt · 2023-10-16 · in Invidious – An open source alternative front-end to YouTube
  35. …Piped - https://piped.video - https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped Invidious - https://invidious.io - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/ Stackoverflow, also completely skinned down to just the content and nothing more: AnonymousOverflow -…
    comment by SushiHippie · 2023-09-20 · in My uBlock Origin filters to remove distractions
  36. Replacing the YouTube client on tvOS/iOS/macOS with https://github.com/yattee/yattee and using either https://github.com/iv-org/invidious https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped as backend is a nice alternative.
    comment by nntwozz · 2023-08-27 · in Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf
  37. …for the self-hosters. [0] https://gist.github.com/yewtudotbe/c16a69ddad88a37c2a364a5ff... [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4027#issuecomment...
    comment by Timber-6539 · 2023-08-10 · in I don't want to host services but I do
  38. …is to one of several servers running Invidious, an open source alternative front-end to YouTube. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by thomasfl · 2023-08-03 · in How pencils are made in a Japanese factory [video]
  39. …my main reasons to want to browse the Web without JS. [1]: https://github.com/zedeus/nitter [2]: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by j1elo · 2023-07-25 · in Why even let users set their own passwords?
  40. It's an invidious instance: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious (actually https://github.com/yewtudotbe/invidious-custom since it has some custom patches)
    comment by MallocVoidstar · 2023-07-04 · in Why yewtu.be was down: Data loss after being shut down by Oracle Cloud
  41. Direct: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872
    comment by KomoD · 2023-06-13 · in YouTube legal team asked Invidious to take down the service within 7 days
  42. …of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. yeah, they DEFINITELY DO: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/e7bed765/src/invidi... not sure what backwards logic they are using to come to this conclusion,…
    comment by 2h · 2023-06-10 · in YouTube legal team contacted Invidious developers
  43. …of their TOS/policies, they don't understand that we don't use their API. yeah, they DEFINITELY DO: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/blob/e7bed765/src/invidi... not sure what backwards logic they are using to come to this conclusion,…
    comment by 2h · 2023-06-10 · in I'm Not Invidious
  44. …usage, which Invidious doesn't use so there's some ambiguity in how it relates to the project. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/3872
    comment by Springtime · 2023-06-10 · in I'm Not Invidious
  45. Invidious is another[1]. I use Piped with Yattee[2] over Tailscale and it works great. 1. https://github.com/iv-org/invidious 2. https://github.com/yattee/yattee
    comment by ecliptik · 2023-06-01 · in Teddit – An alternative Reddit front-end focused on privacy
  46. Invidious is a third-party frontend (you can self-host) that solves this problem: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious As a bonus, it is super fast because it doesn't have to justify the salaries of dozens (hundreds?) of frontend developers…
    comment by Nextgrid · 2023-05-10 · in YouTube tests blocking videos unless you disable ad blockers
  47. …YT tracking or advertising. Works for some depending on reason. More in-depth description here: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by detrites · 2023-04-20 · in Starship Flight Test (Launch in 1 hour)
  48. Or stop using the crap YT frontent entirely - https://yewtu.be Run your own alternate frontend - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by waz0wski · 2023-04-10 · in Microsoft fixes 5-year-old Defender bug, reducing Firefox-related CPU use by 75%
  49. …that happens it'll be bye-bye Youtube and any other venue which implements such measures. [1] https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by the_third_wave · 2023-04-01 · in Could audiobooks be the next frontier for advertising?
  50. Invidious is a solution: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious
    comment by Nextgrid · 2023-03-12 · in How to Live Without Google: Alternatives That Protect Your Privacy