Now much more than just yet another invidious install! IncogTube has been updated both in terms of it's overall appearance but also in it's performance! If you checked it out in the past, it's worth checking out again. And if you've never seen it before, I think you'll be quite happy with it and the added functionality it brings to the network!

Special thanks to /u/z3d for his work and contributions to the design and optimization which makes the site work so well on I2P and Tor now.

Noteworthy changes:

• New, cleaner yet simpler design. Instead of populating the index with a ton of thumbnails and video feeds it's been reduced to a simple search box where you can enter your search term or YouTube URL that you'd like to proxy through the network. The normal "Popular" and "Trending" links remain at the top of the page.

• Load balancing and some hefty caching to ensure items such as thumbnails appear quickly. I personally get clearnet like speeds through the I2P now, and can still stream through Tor. I'm almost always streaming music / albums through it with minimal buffering.

• Other unique design optimizations and tweaks that make this stand out among the sea of invidious YouTube proxy sites. You'll just have to try it to see it.

The biggest unique feature of IncoogTube is it's available across multiple networks such as I2P, Tor, Yggdrasil and of course the clearnet. (Unlike other invidious instances)

Also worth mentioning:

• We actually proxy googlevideo unlike most invidious installations. This means your request is never seen directly by Google. It requires us to use a lot of bandwidth as IncogTube is essentially streaming direct from google and you direct from IncogTube but it results in a more privacy friendly configuration. Fun fact, last month we used 25TB of bandwidth.

• Also, I recently discovered it was used by Edward Snowden himself (see: https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/qa02 ctrl+f "incognet") when I was doing some SEO work and checking backlinks to my web hosting business . How neat is that?! (tube.incognet.io was the original clearnet domain of the instance)