My recent changes towards more privacy friendlier life
Privacy Guides Community [Unofficial]
May 28, 2026
There are two mechanisms at play here:
1. URL redirection in your address bar, from youtube.com to invidious-instance.org
2. Embedded redirection, when navigating within third-party websites
The former is what is the primary use case for LibRedirect, but embeds are a separate case. The term “target site” is ambiguous and could mean two options:
1. The main site, AKA, YouTube
2. Some random third-party site that uses YouTube embedded videos (or other embeds supported by LibRedirect)
The latter is not covered by default, it is opt-in, so for example, on Privacy Guides, if someone embeds a YouTube video in a topic, it will not redirect to an Invidious instance unless you have configured it to also redirect embeds as well.
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