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Privacy has become a very important issue in modern society, with companies and governments constantly abusing their power, more and more people are waking up to the importance of digital privacy.

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Invidious (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 year ago by Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Its very funny to me that I only learned about Invidious recently because youtube is trying to take it down. I will never open youtube ever again. Ive been using addblock/tracking blockers for a decade at this point but now I don't even have to look at their shitty website with its ever degrading interface.

You can't stop the signal. Fuck you Google.

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[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I run my own invidious instance locally, I really hope G! doesn't manage to shut down the main project. Don't have the link handy, but on Invidious's Github page in the issue tracker the author basically says that the email they got from G! was invalid because the project isn't using the G! API and is instead essentially scraping the website and no terms were explicitly agreed to by them. Don't know if that will hold up legally, but it doesn't seem like the author is kowtowing to G! at this point at least. And since hearing the story then I've gotten 3 software updates if that's any indication about the inertia of the project.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean if absolute worst comes to worst, the main project goes down a fork goes up and people just move over. I also host my own instance so itll live forever til they break it with an update. And hell, Vanced still works so... shrug

[–] sneakyninjapants@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My thought's exactly. If the community is there and there's enough people willing to do the dev work, the project will go on indefinitely even if the author is forced to drop it.

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

Folks will always fight for their privacy.