How do these work?

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    I use a FF extension that routes videos to mpv from the context menu.

    For my phone, I use Vanced

    For my Android TV, I use Smarttube.

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    I was an Invidious user until I found out about Libretube, and the fact that on Libretube and even on a Piped website you can login to get your subs from other instances. That is crazy useful.

    So I am full Piped for now.

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    I use Invidious because it does not require JavaScript.

    Also, does piped always proxy the data? Some Invidious instances have the option but I have never seen it on pioed instances.

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      Piped always proxies. That's also why it's really unreliable every now and then. Google has already blocked some proxy servers

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    After trying both, I've settled on Invidious. I prefer the UI, it feels more snappy than Piped. Plus, with Piped I had this problem with longer videos where it'd just stop playing somewhere in the middle. Might be fixed by now though.

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    Haven’t had the best luck directly using invidious it’s very slow, however I’ve found free tube works really well, it allows u to store ur subscriptions and data on ur device and you can also route your free tube traffic thru an invidious server!

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    How do these work?

    Well, Piped doesn't (or at least I've never bothered to wait till it eventually loads).

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    At this point both are being targeted by youtube and they will just keep rate limiting big public instances the more popular they get. I plan to spin up my own invidious instance sinxe i have the hardware and just plug freetube into it. Ill report back with some info on the reliability

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      So if you have the ability to spin up a docker container you can have a private invidious that is faster than youtube on a normal browser and more reliable than a public piped/invidious. Ive set it as default instance for all of my desktops that have freetube app.

      Also just found out about grayjay for android which is a well made multi platform app and the fact its hosted on gitlab vs github is much appreciated. This means less chance of censorship considering micro$haft owns github

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    Does anyone know if there is an extension which would mark the video as watched on youtube without actually watching it? So that you could still take advantage of youtubes front page.

    It's possible to hover over the thumbnail and move the playhead of the mini player a few seconds before the end of the video, and that will count as if you watched the video, but it's slow and not convenient to do.

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    I did setup auto redirect on firefox to invidious (yewtu.be) and it works well enough. I will just change redirect when it stops working. No need to be perfectionslist, just make it seamless and voila, no ads or recomendations :)

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    It literally just came out, but grayjay is already feeling better than both piped and invidious in my experience.

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    Piped uses less CPU on client playback and features like dash actually work as opposed to invidious. But I'm glad creating a piped instance on docker is complicated because I like the simplicity of invidious' UI.

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    On the phone I'm using Libretube, but I'm going to try out Grayjay that just came out. On PC, I usually use FreeTube.
    Both invidious and piped are solid solutions if you'd asked me.

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    Invidious because it actually works on my homelab. Couldn’t get piped to work and their docs are terrible