Has anyone tried to use unbound (or even a hosts file) to redirect requests to youtube to an invidious instance? It seems pretty trivial in my head but I cannot find any reference to it online
There’s not really an elegant way to do this because of HTTPS.
You can use a browser extension like Privacy Redirect to do this though (and/or set up SearXNG to do it however this will only redirect you from search results of Youtube.com on that SearXNG instance).
Ah that makes sense, I hadn’t considered that https would mess this up. I actually already use libredirect on Firefox on my desktop, I was just hoping to set up a network wide redirect. Thanks for the help!
I use a self hosted SearXNG instance and have that rewrite YouTube, Reddit, and Twitter links. You probably could hack Unbound to rewrite domains as well but you could run into some issues.
