There were other frontends before) It's not first

Similar in feature set on Desktop, but we'll also be optionally adding support for Materialious account system in future what will provide things like settings, watch history, watch progress & subscription syncing between devices.

This is mostly all already implemented with end-to-end encryption in Materialious as a web server.

Similar to Invideous, et al. You Tube front end.

Yes, exactly.

Materialious can be deployed in a lot of ways.

It can be used purely as a Invidious frontend.

You can use it as a web server with its own YouTube engine and account system.

Or you can use it as a Desktop & Mobile app with or without Invidious.

Or you can even go into the advanced settings and choose when you want to use Invidious APIs or Materialious

Yeah I don’t think any non public instance has any chance of being blocked. It simply looks like one user among millions to them.

I've been running invidious on my home network for over a year now, no issues other than when YouTube makes changes that break for every inv user anyway.

Yeah if you are running a private instance, you look like legitimate traffic to Google.

I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.

We altcha whats a proof of work captcha. Are you getting any console errors? You do have to wait for the captcha to complete for a bit too.