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Iris loads images via proxy to resize and avoid IP leaking. But I don't have the resources to do this with videos.

What are other clients doing? Just embed remote video urls? Click to load?
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Andrew 3y ago

Let’s test it out from Damus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAwx7wc9KSw

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Andrew 3y ago

Yup, embeds remote url. Most web clients seem to do the same.

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Andrew 3y ago

If you want to proxy YouTube links without having to be the one providing the proxy, you can convert YouTube links to invidious proxy ones! So for the video I just posted, you’d instead convert it to:

https://inv.riverside.rocks/watch?v=pAwx7wc9KSw