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.
this post was submitted on 18 Nov 2023
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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.
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.
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 :-)
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 :-)
For me, I know it doesn't offer much privacy if its locally hosted, but the latency compared to using public instances is much better. Which may sound stupid, but at least I also don't have to depend on another person for their instance.
I self-host Piped and Invidious in containers with networking plumbed to glueton[1] on a VPN.
This way all traffic going to youtube from piped/invidious comes from the VPN, and can easily switch regions/providers if there's service degradation. Also mixes traffic with other VPN users to lower fingerprinting.
This patterns works well with almost any self-hosted service.
I really need to sit down and figure out how to do this.