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Anyone who's been around Le Alternative for a while is definitely aware of Invidious: An alternative front-end to watch YouTube without having to go to YouTube. Materialious, the front-end of the front-end, has recently arrived 😅.
Materialious it is in fact a simple different front-end for Invidious. It aims to improve its graphical flaws and make the graphics more modern and pleasant using the Material Design, from which its name derives.
Materialious: a new interface for Invidious!
Invidious is therefore always used for video management but new graphics are placed over it which has various additional features which we bring to you directly from the website page. source code of the project:
- Integration with Syncios!
- Synchronize videos viewed between various Invidious servers.
- Watch videos together with other people!
- Mini player.
- Preview video on mouse hover.
- Sponsorblock (to also block advertisements within videos)
- YouTube dislikes.
- DeArrow (to replace clickbait headlines and images with something less sensationalistic).
- Tracking and shooting video progress.
- No advertising.
- No tracking.
- Light and dark theme.
- Custom themes.
- Integrates with Invidious subscriptions, video viewed history, and more.
- Live streams.
- Dash support.
- Chapters.
- Audio only mode.
- Playlists.
- PWA support.
- Redirects to YT path (so your redirect plugins should still work!)
The graphics are therefore decidedly cleaner and, even if not everyone may like it, it is always a good idea to try to improve existing projects. The graphics of Invidious are in fact decidedly spartan even if they do their job without problems.
Materialious it also adds several easily activated features such as the rehabilitation of "dislike” by YouTube, the activation of Syncious (to synchronize your activities on various Invidious servers), the possibility of activating Sponsorblock (to also eliminate advertising within videos) and enable DeArrow that will try to replace clickbait headlines and previews with something less sensationalistic.
In short Materialious aims to be a truly complete alternative to Invidious and it is not intended to be just a simple graphic restyling.
• •Other alternatives to watch YouTube without using YouTube
So if you liked this alternative we can only offer you the legendary one too Piped with its main server piped.kavin.rocks.
If you are on Android you can take a look at NewPipe or a GrayJay while on desktop there is good FreeTube.
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