Very cool! I’m walking this same route, but with LibRedirect and Invidious Instance Selector Firefox addons. Maybe libraries can do community video-hosting and moderation? But please, no more businesses
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DefiantBidet@lemmy.world 5 months ago
YouTube slowing itself down to unusable made me write a local extension that takes any YouTube watch link and opens it in yewtu.be my life has been better since. Fuck you tube’s stance. You’re gonna make the experience terrible I’ll watch your content via another client.
Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 5 months ago
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I’m not familiar with yewtu.be, but couldn’t you accomplish the the same thing with a simple Host File entry in your operating system? Get the IP of yewtu.be (by pinging it which I just did to get 104.244.72.25), create an entry that says:
youtube.com 104.244.72.25So when your OS goes to find youtube.com, it gets directed to the IP of yewtu.be
ostsjoe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No, the browser would still send YouTube.com as the host header. While yewtu.be could be configured to allow this to work, the TLS cert would not and the browser would get upset.
Dehydrated@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your browser doesn’t check SSL certificates?
PopMyCop@iusearchlinux.fyi 5 months ago
Have you tried LibRedirect? It works for quite a bit more than just youtube. I personally love it for the fandom mirrors.
hiramfromthechi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For those of us who can’t code their own extensions: LibRedirect does this for other sites as well, not just YouTube.
elshandra@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Oh, ty. This will replace a few extensions for me.