• Mora@pawb.social
    2·
    4 months ago

    Think Invidious for porn.

    So, are user accounts planned? That would be a great feature, especially if favoriting a video would automatically cache/download the video on the server.

    • Desiring Machine@beehaw.orgOP
      2·
      4 months ago

      Next added features (in near future) will be:

      • advanced search with pagination and filters
      • support for other 4-5 platforms

      But yeah, a mechanism to save/bookmark favourite videos would definitely be cool and can be easily implemented!

  • jarfil@beehaw.org
    0·
    4 months ago

    Hm, from a privacy point of view, what’s the difference between this, vs. a private/incognito tab with a pi-hole?

    I mean:

    • pi-hole eats the ads
    • private/incognito eats the cookies
    • the sites can still do basic tracking via the video feed itself

    As for functional differences… right now, the player seems to be missing the skip ±10sec feature, and the full-screen with rotate.

    On the other hand… multi-site private bookmarking, would be interesting.

    • Desiring Machine@beehaw.orgOP
      0·
      4 months ago

      With incognito mode data is still fetched client-side: the browser still has to send requests directly to the target platform. Plus the origin platform will still set session cookies.

      Instead PR (and as far as I know all other alt-frontends) fetches data and does scraping server-side, so that the browser never contacts the platform directly.

      The idea is that you can host these alt-frontends wherever you wants (eg. on a remote VPS) outside of your network and they deal with the platforms as intermediaries, and people just have to open the proxy website and browse for content…