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Comparision with Invidious
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New users often don't know the differences between Piped and Invidious, and the current documentation lacks proper information about it.
We should add a page to the documentation to show the advantages and disadvantages of both.
To be honest, I don't see what's missing from the current documentation, except for:
- Invidious doesn't necessarily proxy videos, it depends on user settings and instance defaults - this can be bad for privacy.
- Piped always proxies videos - this means more bandwidth required to host a Piped instance, and videos being relatively slower to load compared to non proxied Invidious.
I think it's worth mentioning on that page that Piped has a different backend (NPE) than Invidious, so it provides a great alternative for when Invidious or similar services aren't working for the user for whatever reason.