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That being said, www.youtube-nocookie.com could in theory be used for a more privacy-focused option (you know, the thing that DuckDuckGo uses on their video search results if you select "Watch Here")

Well it seems you fixed the constant errors when trying to access a video/description page, so maybe it's not all that time-critical after all.

For the last few days, your invidious instance has basically always just returned an error when trying to access a video (with a couple exceptions that I got lucky on yesterday).

Since my primary interest in using Invidious is for the lighter weight "no nonsense" UI rather than full anonymity (I tend to watch videos in private browsing windows anyway), I regularly fall back to using the YouTube embed link when playback isn't working correctly.

The problem is that, because you can't just manually type in and go to the youtube embedded player as of around a year ago, you have to use a link with a proper referrer. But the pull request for the youtube embedded player never got officially merged, hence presumably why it's not present on your instance:

• https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/5650

Would it be too much to ask if maybe you could reconsider? Is there really extra low-hanging fruit preventing the merger of that pull request? (I have extremely minimal software dev skills/ understanding of such things)

In order to use my current avatar, I had to intentionally pad it to basically twice the height and width.

This is because, no matter if the uploaded image was 934x934 or 400x400, it always insisted on cropping to about 45% of the height & width.

(this was in LibreWolf 159.0.1 but it also happened in a more obscure gecko-derived web browser)