Watching YouTube Videos Without Nonfree Software, Advertisements,
or Tracking
Since around 2022, I've been encouraging people to
use Invidious, a
free software front-end for YouTube, over the standard YouTube web
site, since it lets people watch the same videos free of advertising,
tracking, and nonfree software. It fortunately does not use the
YouTube API, decreasing the amount of data that needs to get handed
over to Google to get sold around down by a ton. It also, by design,
gets rid of the forced advertisements for nonpremium users entirely.
To use Invidious, simply replace "www.youtube.com" in the URL bar with
"invidio.us", and select any instance from the list. Optionally, for
people with JavaScript enabled, you can add this link to your
bookmarks bar to easily switch from YouTube to Invidious:
Anton McClure /
anton@aperture.nonpaged.com