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Comparision with Invidious

Open FireMasterK opened this issue 3 years ago • 2 comments

Describe your question

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.

FireMasterK avatar Nov 19 '22 04:11 FireMasterK

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.

thecashewtrader avatar Nov 28 '22 15:11 thecashewtrader

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.

opusforlife2 avatar Jun 15 '23 03:06 opusforlife2