Private invidious instance?

[necrevistonnezr]

Is it possible to allow only logged in users to use the instance? There seems to be pull requests on Github that are not merged... https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/446

[girish]

There's a screenshot here about registration and login - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/312#issuecomment-468831842 . But I guess this doesn't affect if a user can actually use the app.

[necrevistonnezr]

It would be great if we could provide a basic http auth to this - and any - Cloudron app... like a proxy-auth for Cloudron apps?

[girish]

Yeah, maybe we can disable login and disable registration and put it behind proxyAuth. But I think @vladimir-d checked this and found that the proxy auth routes of Cloudron and indivious conflict...

I am still finding my way with the app, but I don't understand why it allows everyone to access the instance despite having authentication support. What is the logic here?

[jdaviescoates]

@girish said in Private invidious instance?:

I am still finding my way with the app, but I don't understand why it allows everyone to access the instance despite having authentication support. What is the logic here?

IMHO main point of such things is to be able to share links to videos for others to watch without them being tracked.

Requiring them to login and register would kinda defeat the purpose.

AFAICT the only point of registering and logging in is to be able to adjust playback preferences etc, and so you can do things like Subscribe to channels within Invidious etc (much like YouTube itself in that respect: you can watch the videos etc without logging in, but if you want to subscribe to channels etc you need to login):

At least, I can't see any other "admin" type settings anywhere whilst logged in as the default "admin" account.

[robi]

@girish said in Private invidious instance?:

I am still finding my way with the app, but I don't understand why it allows everyone to access the instance despite having authentication support. What is the logic here?

It's to mimic YT functionality, by logging in getting additional features, watch lists, preferences, etc.

[necrevistonnezr]

re-affirming my request for basic auth for this app as per https://forum.cloudron.io/post/78514

[necrevistonnezr]

I just realized that the last invidious release is 4 years old?!

[robi]

@necrevistonnezr Nope.

From new install on demo instance (settings > updates tab):
App Title and Version Invidious 2023.11.04
Package Version io.invidious.cloudronapp@0.3.0

[girish]

Right, the app is built from 438467f69a20007cace4 upstream (so nov 4 2023)