YouTube for Your Family in Iran, Without a VPN
YouTube is blocked in Iran, so most people there depend on VPNs that are slow, unstable, and often blocked themselves. If you live outside Iran and have a small computer at home, there is a nicer way: run Invidious (an open-source YouTube frontend) on your home connection and publish it through a Cloudflare Tunnel. Your family just opens a normal website. No VPN, no app, no configuration on their side. Why this works Your home IP is a residential IP. YouTube aggressively blocks requests coming from datacenters, so Invidious on a cheap VPS breaks all the time. From a home connection it just works. Cloudflare Tunnel needs no open ports. A small connector (cloudflared) dials out from your home to Cloudflare, and Cloudflare routes your public domain to it. Your home IP stays hidden and your router stays untouched. The blocked side never talks to YouTube. Visitors in Iran only talk to your domain on Cloudflare’s network; your server fetches the videos. You need: a machine at home that runs Docker (an old laptop is perfect), a free Cloudflare account, and a domain added to Cloudflare. ...