Materialious is usable on Web, Android (TV too) & Desktop.
It can be used with Invidious or using its own YouTube backend.
Has its own account system with end-to-end encryption for subscriptions.
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I can’t seem to prove I’m not a robot on the selfhosted docker install… shame. I’m stuck at “verifying…”
Help me understand what this does. It looks like it run on your own device and fetches YouTube videos you want to see, presenting them to you through its interface without ads and shit.
So I could throw it in my server and have my phone pull up its page and play content right?
Similar to Invideous, et al. You Tube front end.
I was gonna say, how is this different from invidious?
This can actually use Invidious as its backend if someone wants to.
Its basically just a more feature rich Invidious whata easier to deploy.
Yes, exactly.
The thing about these front ends is that Google will eventually get around to blocking your IP. After many unsuccessful attempts that got ban hammered after a week or so, I finally got it to work. I piped it through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. Haven’t had an issue. My deployment was the Invideous with companion app. The Companion app has been complaining about being unhealthy for ages now, but it keeps right on ticking. I don’t watch a huge number of YT videos. Usually my consumption is a tutorial here or there.
I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.
Yeah I don’t think any non public instance has any chance of being blocked. It simply looks like one user among millions to them.
Just my experience. Like I said, the only thing I use it for is to watch a tutorial without endless, unskippable ads just to find out the tut is trash.
Yeah if you are running a private instance, you look like legitimate traffic to Google.
I’ve been running invidious on my home network for over a year now, no issues other than when YouTube makes changes that break for every inv user anyway.
I tried it earlier, though the only issue has to do with VPNs, as YouTube hates them. Invidious doesn’t really work that well either.
