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I think YouTube service filter needs to be expanded

obviously the YouTube service filter currently blocks YouTube domains.

Though there is a service called Invidious which basically just packages YouTube into different instances. To be honest, I don’t know how it exists and how YouTube haven’t clamped down on it. With the Youtube filter active, Invidious can still be used to stream from YouTube.

Below is a list of current instances running Invidious. I believe these and invidious.io (where the instances are listed) should be blocked so that the YouTube filter can’t be circumvented.

https://docs.invidious.io/instances/#rules-to-have-your-instance-in-this-list

given that invidious only shows content from YouTube I’d think there’s no downside in just including these within the YouTube filter.

thanks