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Anyone has experience self hosting a YouTube frontend exclusively for the LAN? (lemmygrad.ml)

submitted 5 months ago by ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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I wanna host something like Invidious/Piped on my SBC which can allow me to consume YouTube slop without ads.

Normally my flow for consuming YouTube slop is to download the video using yt-dlp which is then made available via jellyfin. Sometimes I view YouTube videos from my computer's Firefox but today I was shown ads despite uBlock Origin which has left me scarred and deformed (metaphorically).

I would like to run a YouTube frontend on my SBC as a backup. Public instances have not performed well for me. It would also be good for devices that don't let you use adblockers in some capacity.

I have looked at Invidious and Piped. While they are great to use, I found that their stack has a lot of components which I am hoping to avoid since they can be hard to manage.

So I'm wondering if someone here runs something like this locally for private use. Any input is appreciated.

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[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 2 points 5 months ago

I do run Piped locally for my family's use, it seems that it works better than public instances but I haven't really measured to what extent (except for ping, which is obviously excellent at 4ms).

I would say that the problem with self-hosting for private use is limited privacy, as the benefits of grouping multiple users behind the same proxy are lost. I try to mitigate this by routing all piped traffic through a VPN though.