AI slop & AI code is very different. If its just pure vibe coded slop with no oversight or effort, then sure its just junk, remove it.

But a lot of experienced developers now use AI tooling to increase productivity, just because AI was used in the process should be consider it slop?

Similar in feature set on Desktop, but we’ll also be optionally adding support for Materialious account system in future what will provide things like settings, watch history, watch progress & subscription syncing between devices.

This is mostly all already implemented with end-to-end encryption in Materialious as a web server.

Materialious can be deployed in a lot of ways.

It can be used purely as a Invidious frontend.

You can use it as a web server with its own YouTube engine and account system.

Or you can use it as a Desktop & Mobile app with or without Invidious.

Or you can even go into the advanced settings and choose when you want to use Invidious APIs or Materialious

We altcha whats a proof of work captcha. Are you getting any console errors? You do have to wait for the captcha to complete for a bit too.

This can actually use Invidious as its backend if someone wants to.

Its basically just a more feature rich Invidious whata easier to deploy.

Yeah if you are running a private instance, you look like legitimate traffic to Google.