On 18/11/2025 05:41, jman wrote:
- Open the first invidious instance with the best health (inv.nadeko.net
as of now)
- Type "emacs" in the search bar
- It takes me about 8s (without any cache) to fully load the video
player in the browser
This is a suboptimal user experience, in my opinion.
Nobody promised convenience in the context of struggle for free software.
FSF does not consider YouTube as legitimate because it uses non-free JS.
Accordingly to this position you should avoid that site and you should
not encourage others watching videos there.
The question is what is the price of avoiding direct conflict with FSF
policy.
I do not believe in free code on similar sites soon even for users
having payed subscription. Web is rather hostile even for this kind of
sites after all.
I suspect that using links to alternative front-ends may be a problem
for users who already prefer one of them. This kind of users should have
workflow working for links from other sites and Worg may become an
exception breaking their workflow. (Not to mention that alternatives
exist only because for the original site there are threats with higher
priority.)
Perhaps the only viable solution is to convince authors of videos to
publish them on some free platform.
