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So a little while ago, @AOU and I were looking at invidious and realized something, it is open source. So we decided Poal.co should host an instance of it and then @AOU did his magic and made it pretty and tube.poal.co was born! I hope everyone enjoys the new feature and enjoy that now all videos expando's for youtube videos, invidious videos and a few others will not be able to track you.

Cheers.

AOU and PMYB2

So a little while ago, @AOU and I were looking at invidious and realized something, it is open source. So we decided Poal.co should host an instance of it and then @AOU did his magic and made it pretty and tube.poal.co was born! I hope everyone enjoys the new feature and enjoy that now all videos expando's for youtube videos, invidious videos and a few others will not be able to track you. Cheers. AOU and PMYB2

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[–] • 2 pts

So what it does, is pulls the video URL from youtube and serves it up in an html5 player hosted on one of our servers, so no yt tracking. This is just the first version of what I'm planning on doing.

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Thanks. How is this approach different that what hooktube was doing that got them changed? Is this something like you're a "user" watching the YT vid and we're just looking over your shoulder, unknown to YT?

[–] • 2 pts

Well its different from hooketube in that it doesn't use any of the youtube API, youtube can't look over your shoulder at what you are watching(also no ads) its an instance of invidious at its core for the moment but the plan is bigger than that.

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My poor analogy was more like... is Poal is the user YT see's watching a video but we are "looking over Poals shoulder" so us users are invisible to YT?