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Never ever post a link to YouTube in a channel that are about privacy! Link to a privacy-friendly front-end like Piped instead.
Don't bother. OP refuses to take advice and will just tell you to "do it yourself."
Yeah, I know. But wanted to say it anyway.
I looked at the hosted instances and none were working for me. The filter is a reasonable request. Being asked to write out a summary is not. I wrote the offending VPN on the tittle and a statement on what the video covers, that was still not to @Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works standards. They are not entitled to my time to add metadata to things to their satisfaction.
Honestly, writing a summary of a video uploaded to YouTube is a very valid thing to do for any YouTube video (I am not alone with not opening links that goes to Big Tech's services). Just copy and paste the video's description, use DeepL or Offline Translator to translate it if it is not in English. Super easy to do. And if the video does not have any description, just write what the video is all about (but explains more than the title does). Doesn't have to be a long summary.
And for the Piped instances. Yes, unfortunately a lot of them are not working. That is why I installed it on my own server last year or so. But I would rather see a link to a Piped instance than a link to YouTube. That way I have a choice to switch instance. But with a link that leads to youtube.com, I need to copy the URL (if I can) or open the link and spam Esc or the X icon in hope that Google will not log anything about me. Just use piped.video (the official instance) and people will be happy. Much more privacy-friendly, too.
So what about the description I wrote is unclear about the video topic?
What description? :) You wrote the title of the video. That itself explans the topic of the video, but nothing more. We who don't opens the link wants to know in short what the video is truly about.
Anyway. I say good buy now :) Take care.
That description that is highlighted
are there any working instances nowadays? Invidious is better on that front.
weird because invidious is harder to maintain
Yes, mine, but I don't want to share the link to it.
oh, I see. no problem. but it's easy to maintain a public instance if it is not publicly listed, and few know about it. with less traffic you are less noticeable.
but good to know the software still works