Materialious is usable on Web, Android (TV too) & Desktop.
It can be used with Invidious or using its own YouTube backend.
Has its own account system with end-to-end encryption for subscriptions.
this post was submitted on 14 Feb 2026
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The thing about these front ends is that Google will eventually get around to blocking your IP. After many unsuccessful attempts that got ban hammered after a week or so, I finally got it to work. I piped it through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. Haven't had an issue. My deployment was the Invideous with companion app. The Companion app has been complaining about being unhealthy for ages now, but it keeps right on ticking. I don't watch a huge number of YT videos. Usually my consumption is a tutorial here or there.
Yeah I don’t think any non public instance has any chance of being blocked. It simply looks like one user among millions to them.
Just my experience. Like I said, the only thing I use it for is to watch a tutorial without endless, unskippable ads just to find out the tut is trash.
I've been running invidious on my home network for over a year now, no issues other than when YouTube makes changes that break for every inv user anyway.
Yeah if you are running a private instance, you look like legitimate traffic to Google.
I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.