They are the same thing (YouTube self-hosted frontend alternative) with their own features I guess?

You should test Piped, Indivious and Viewtube and make your own opinion, however Viewtube has been paused so this one is probably not going to have the SABR workaround update Piped and Invidious are working on ?

Right now they are all a bit janky and unstable because of YouTube’s new update (SABR, don’t know the details) so find one that works as self-hosted and keep tuned.

If you’re able to contribute as a dev though, give them some help to speed up the process and contribute to the best YouTube frontend alternatives projects !

That’s a good thing tough ! Right now they are all a bit unstable and YouTube’s new SABR things makes those alternatives kinda unreliable.

There are solutions though… Yes, it’s not native and adds some little extra work but it’s already possible: https://docs.goauthentik.io/integrations/services/jellyfin/

I haven’t tried it though, it’s on my todo list and saved bookmark, just though I would share :)

An other solution would be to make a tiny wireguard server and make a VPN to your homeserver. Just put something like a bananaPi (or something else) into your grandparents house :) they won’t see any difference !

A plus could be to even add your own dns+pihole onto their network and block some of those nasty ads :) !