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   Babu Menos 💬 (babumenos@sunny.garden)'s status on Monday, 03-Apr-2023 08:41:22 JST Babu Menos 💬

   PSA: If you want to link to a YouTube video but don’t like Google’s¹ relentless spying and data-grabbing, you can easily use a proxy.

   1. Copy the 11 digits/characters ID from the YouTube URL. It’s either the last 11 or the ones after “watch?v=”, like so:

   youtube.com/watch?v=VOv3cbRoRdY

   or
   youtu.be/VOv3cbRoRdY

   or
   www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOv3cbRoRdY&list=PL6a6Laxx0cSO_mzsL-njicP9l3gGcCA5I&index=1

   are all pointing to the YouTube ID
   VOv3cbRoRdY

   2. Append this ID to an Invidious URL of your choice, like so:

   https://invidious.snopyta.org/w/VOv3cbRoRdY

   or
   https://vid.puffyan.us/w/VOv3cbRoRdY

   or
   https://yewtu.be/w/VOv3cbRoRdY

   Note that between the base URL and the ID there’s this bit: /w/

   Invidious also works similar to YouTube, like so:
   https://yewtu.be/watch?v=VOv3cbRoRdY

   Here’s a list of officially recommended Invidious instances:
   https://docs.invidious.io/instances

   Questions? Ask away!

   ¹ For those who don’t know: Google is the owner of YouTube.