My Nice Experience in Browsing Embedded YouTube without JS

Finally, I can watch YouTube videos embedded in any website without worrying about things like nonfree JavaScript, ads, and trackers (explained below). Thanks to Invidious I could search & watch all YouTube videos without worry. Thanks to Invidition addon all YouTube frames on all websites automatically turned into Invidious instead. Thanks to both, I can download any YouTube video just by right-click > Save Video As. This is simply nice experience for me I wish to share with you. Enjoy!

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1. What is a youtube frame?

A youtube frame is a black rectangle presented on a webpage with "YouTube" name and    >   button & red timeline bar. Below is a youtube frame example. In fact, every of this thing embedded in many websites are full with JS and trackers, often with ads. I give you examples below from FossLinux latest article about Deepin V20.


Then, what is invidious frame? An invidious frame looks similar but different to youtube's as there is no red color and no YouTube name.

By knowing Invidious and Invidition, we will never see YouTube frames anymore while browsing.

2. What are JS, ads, & trackers?

A JavaScript (JS) is simply a software running within your web browser. In fact, thanks to Youtube-dl and Indivious, it's proved that actually we do not need JS to watch videos from YouTube server.

Ads are advertisements that often appears on a YouTube frame before the video starts. If you disable JS you disable ads.

Trackers are system from YouTube to record everything about you, for example, your Google account, IP address, clicks, and activities. If trackers were blocked, your activities can not be recorded by YouTube. If you disable JS you disable these.



These are privacy discussion if you wonder what. If you want to know more, I recommend you to read MyShadow.org.

3. What are Invidious & Invidition?

I do not go to YouTube.com like most people, but I go to Invidio.us instead. I can watch all videos here without JS, ads, and trackers. In short, Invidious is a website that acts as an intermediate between us and YouTube. The big bonus is I also can download every video in multiple formats thanks to the download button below every video.



More features:

• Every URL is same except youtube.com changed into invidio.us
• Resolution switcher is available
• Subtitle feature  [CC]  is also available
• Share feature, including embed code, is also available

Invidition is just a browser addon, but the awesome thing is, it automatically turns every YouTube frame into Invidious frame in all websites. Invidition is not the only one as there are several alternatives you could choose instead. Here, I choose Invidition because of the name resembles Invidious.   

Browsing without worry 

For example, while I browse GNOME Conference videos center, there are a lot of videos there, I just click video links without worrying because all YouTube links are automatically converted to Indivious links. This automation is thanks to Invidition.

Another example, while I browse LibreOffice Conference videos publication, there are also many videos, I can watch the video at that page safely because everything video is already without JS. 

Same thing if you browse Twitter, Facebook, or other websites, every YouTube links and frames are automatically converted to Invidious.

They are free software

Invidious is a web-based software created by omarroth and licensed under free license GNU GPL.

Invidition is a free software browser add-on by Booteile in Public Domain.

This is my experience I shared with you. I hope you also have nice experience with it. What is your opinion? Let me know from comment section below.

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