This site is the fastest interface to YouTube in the U.S., with a latency of 153ms from the East Coast.
The Invidious is run by Riverside Rocks, which seems to be a group of privacy enthusiasts. They run a variety of servers — see this page for a list.
More About Invidious
Invidious is an alternative front-end to YouTube. It’s lightweight — the homepage is 4KB compressed — and it does not require javascript to play videos. It is also free of ads and trackers.
Invidious is open-source and can be downloaded.
Here is a full feature list:
- No need to create a Google account to save subscriptions
- Audio-only mode (and no need to keep the window open on mobile)
- Tools for managing subscriptions:
- Only show unseen videos
- Only show the latest (or latest unseen) video from each channel
- Delivers notifications from all subscribed channels
- Automatically redirect homepage to feed
- Import subscriptions from YouTube
- Dark mode
- Embed support
- Set default player options (speed, quality, autoplay, loop)
- Support for Reddit comments in place of YT comments
- Import/Export subscriptions, watch history, preferences
- Does not use any of the official YouTube APIs
- Developer API
