[jstanley]

Lots of people like the content on YouTube but don't like all the Googley parts.

I frequently watch YouTube over Tor, and they've started making me do lots of reCAPTCHAs and occasionally even rejecting me after I've completed the reCAPTCHAs.

HookTube is an improvement over the real YouTube interface in the sense that it never makes me do CAPTCHAs, except some proportion of videos don't work on HookTube, it just gives a black box saying "Watch this video on YouTube".

From a sample of 1 video that I couldn't watch on HookTube, it worked straight away on Invidious. So it's useful in that sense if nothing else.