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I'm not really sure what the site does, looks like a cleanly designed proxy for youtube?

If it's a service that's piggybacking on another site there's a good chance it'll get shut down at some point. I get the feeling the author of the post is a little naïve that this comes as a surprise, that their two accounts with Oracle were linked and banned in unison came as a surprise and there wasn't a backup.

However anyone who uses a site like this knows it's easy come/easy go. You get what you pay for and appreciate the time, effort and money the webmaster has put in and make your own arrangements to save anything of importance to your local machine.



These are Invidious instances[1], which proxy Youtube content for privacy reasons, though the project is having some legal troubles right now[2].

[1] https://invidious.io

[2] https://blog.thefrenchghosty.me/posts/im-not-invidious/


That second link, the blog post, is very weird.

I understand the Spartacus-cum-Anonymous message that they're going for but the language is all over the place.

Invidious can receive emails but isn't a person or business entity?

I might just as well say that Knobble@McKnees.com isn't a person contactable via the Internet, it _just is_.


I agree it's a weird way to defend a C&D; it was discussed on HN previously[1] with many commenters pointing out the same.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36262722


It's an invidious instance: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious (actually https://github.com/yewtudotbe/invidious-custom since it has some custom patches)




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