Invidious is currently using https://anti-captcha.com to solve and bypass captchas.

I and many others feel negatively about supporting an exploitative mechanical turk-like company to enable invidious to continue to function. I'd very much like to start a discussion around more ethical alternatives to handling Google captchas.

There will certainly have to be tradeoffs to make this happen, but I'd like to see invidious be as ethical a piece of software as possible and I think a big first step is finding a way to stop supporting harmful and exploitative services like anti-captcha.com.

Ideally I'd like to see this issue left open as an open discussion about alternatives, even if they're just configurable for personal instances.