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minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·6 days agofrontend instances are the way to stop this.
minus-squarehexagonwin@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 days ago…which are getting blocked insanely fast nowadays…
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up5·6 days agothey work if you don’t use them too much can tolerate a bit of downtime here and there. i recommend libredirect and finding multiple good ones, so it deals with that for you.
minus-squareScoffingLizard@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·5 days agoI’m interested. What is a frontend instance? Like, the server acts as a reverse proxy or something?
minus-square☂️-@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-23 days agoyes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend. it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc) redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more. you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such. libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.
frontend instances are the way to stop this.
…which are getting blocked insanely fast nowadays…
they work if you don’t use them too much can tolerate a bit of downtime here and there.
i recommend libredirect and finding multiple good ones, so it deals with that for you.
I’m interested. What is a frontend instance? Like, the server acts as a reverse proxy or something?
yes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend.
it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc)
redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more.
you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such.
libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.