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
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Congrats on nabbing Brothers in Arms! That’s such an awesome album to put on and just vibe with
I’ve been Takeshidude since I was maybe 11 back on Lego.com
Feels wrong to have any other name
While I can’t say I agree with the political views of the lemmy devs (at least as described in this article, as I have no other reference point), I think that it shows one of the really cool things about the fediverse. So what if those guys over there are weirdos? I can take the ball they gave me and go play somewhere else with other people.
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