I have been self-hosting a local Invidious instance for several months. I watch videos from it every day and I've had no IP ban so far.
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Thank you for your feedback! I get the impression that it might work if used on a small scale when it´s not public. I guess I will have a new container soon :-)
I do this exact thing and after a year or so of running my invidious instance locally I'm not banned and never had any issues and I use it about 5 hours per day give or take. Hope this helps.
Oh wow, that is a lot more usage than I can think of for all of us here, haha! Thank you very much. That sounds very promising.
What's the benefit of self hosting it? Is it just the ui or are there any privacy benefits?
One reason is because I can. And because of that, I tend to host things myself which I can. This generates cost and work to maintain it on my side and not for others. A few less users from our household on a public instance means more room for others who are just not as tech-savvy and have no other choice as to rely on public instances. So it is a mix of respecting other peoples time, effort and money and a part is just the nerd that wants to find out how it works and how it´s done :-)