As I had stated in the previous post, I wanted to take feedback and use it as much as possible, so support for Tor is now here, although probably not a “perfect” setup, I was aiming to reduce common annoyances and get a clean onion URL for any Tor/Brave users who need it. You can find it at this address:
http://gkypsutnzdhsxsycmd7rrl4ule6lhfykdlzr2rxuzqlx6kh7kifegvqd.onion
While you can still take the survey currently, I wanted to share some thoughts and other insights from the numerous responses. To start, I saw some problems occurred with Tor users and some VPN users. While some people may still see “forbidden” if they use certain IP ranges, I believe I had made the bot blocking system less prevalent. Users will only see a captcha, which will automatically pass them if they are seen as humans. Without any extra effort, you don’t need to deal with image captchas or any other complicated systems, just, a quick verify step. While it’s not a passive “Stop the bots and question the suspicious users” it is better to require manual interaction for some of the lazy bots. Therefore, you will see less of the “checking you’re a bot” page and actually use Invidious more. Enrollment of each service will take time, and results are looking good, after ironing at the small issues I had.
Due to the ever-changing nature of it, I’d love to hear feedback from you on Invidious itself. I ask about my instance and YouTube as a whole, please fill it out here:
https://forms.chocolatemoo53.com/forms/invidious-survey-2026
Any help and submissions are greatly appreciated.
Currently, the instance itself is having playback issues, although it does recover, so please be patient and recall your experience on related questions.
