Dnscrypt-proxy: [HELP] Please, youtube to invidious?

[EstherMoellman]

Hi!

Please, is it possible to redirect any youtube' video to invidious (https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/) by using DNSCrypt?

I tried by CLOAKING and FORWARDING, but I failed.
I also tested many "*" combinations.

Days ago I posted a question at GitHub Invidious (https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/739), the Dev suggested me to use *.youtube.com invidio.us, I tested it, but sadly it didn't work.

Thank in advance!

[jedisct1]

The Invidious web server needs to be configured to be able to respond to youtube.com, not just invidio.us. But that won't work for HTTPS (to do so, you need to add certificates to your browser, it's complicated).

[EstherMoellman]

What a pity! But thank you for the answer.

[dnscrypt-ca]

If you use Firefox you could use the Redirector extension to do this. I should note that:

1. This works on the URL bar and does not seem to affect embedded video.
2. This is a redirect rather than masking the youtube (or whatever) site with another, so the URL will change and you will be "at" the new site.

A bit of a hack, but possibly useful.

I realize this really has nothing to do with dnscrypt-proxy but I thought it might be nice to provide a [possible] solution in case other people came looking for the same thing. Apologies if this is unwelcome.

[EstherMoellman]

@dnscrypt-ca thank you for your (very welcome) comment.

I've been using DNScrypt for the past two years. This has been a beautiful learning path. And today, DNSCrypt for me is a kind of Swiss-knife, doing much more than just encrypting DNS.

These Swiss-knife DNSCrypt' multi-functions allowed me, for example, to replace lot of add-ons/extensions I had (mainly ad-blockers, tracker-blockers, redirectors etc). My browser performance gain was huge! So since DNSCrypt, if I can, I really try to avoid any kind of add-on/extension. Thanks to DNSCrypt, today I have a fraction of the add-ons/extensions I had 2 years ago.

So, I was aware about add-ons/extensions capable to redirect youtube to invidious. But I really hoped that my DNSCyrpt Swiss-kinfe was able to do that.
But again, thank you for your help!

For those DNSCrypt' users in my same situation, wanting to redirect youtube to invidious, I leave below a tiny JS' code able to do that, much more lightweight than any add-on/extension:

var a = 0;
setInterval(function () {
if (a === 0 && window.location.href.indexOf('watch?') > -1 && window.location.href.indexOf('list=WL') < 0) {
a = '//invidio.us/watch?' + window.parent.location.href.split('?')[1];
window.location.replace(a);
}
}, 10);