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  • I sadly am on a iPad and iPhone, but I do use the app Unwatched that blocks youtube ads.

    I have an iPhone / iPad combo as well, my preference is Yattee as it supports the Invidious APi as well as Sponsor Block and DeArrow.

    Edit; after I made this comment I checked the App Store for Yattee, it appears delisted, their GitHub reports a V2 is in the makes.

    I have tried setting up invidous but I some how always seem to mess it up The Google knows what I have watched on Youtube and that is it.

    That is fair, I had no issue dumping my prior watch history and starting from scratch, i can see how it turns many people away.

    Invidious is quite high-maintenance unfortunately, always have to stay on top of updates which occur a couple times a week otherwise your instance falls behind and eventually dies due to YouTube constant changing of their APi.

    I was with hosthero but they have no wild card emails and I could not add A records, or it was very hard don’t remember or care, I am now with easyDNS and wish I started with them as they have everything I was looking for without CPannel!

    I personally bought my hardware, asus router and dedicated mini-pc for networking and server tinkering, besides electrical I only have to pay for my domain which I got from namecheap but then eventually transferred to Cloudflare, but thinking I should switch registrars before my next bill payment.


  • I would hate that for whatever service that is for,

    It’s the provincial governments authentication service for Canadians, if you ever used GCKey it’s essentially the same thing but provincial opposed to federal.

    It allows ease of access to things like medical records, tax records, license renewals and such.

    Alberta has their own system similar to this.


    the only Google service I knowingly use is Youtube

    Might I suggest Invidious as an alternative, you can host your own that way only 1 device on your network needs to contact YouTube directly or you can use one that is public.