yes, kind of. they are a proxy that takes the stream from google and streams it back to you from a lightweight frontend.

it’s like invidious instances for youtube (nadeko, catsarch, etc)

redlib instances for reddit, nitter for twitter (xcancel), imginn for instagram and more.

you will often see a bot posting links to them in my instance’s comms when people post links to youtube and such.

libredirect is a browser extension that manages them.