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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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EDIT: For those who are too lazy to click the link, this is what it says

Hello,

Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won't work anymore.

If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/..

This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io. Please don't abuse them since the number is really low.

Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.

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[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 11 points 14 hours ago

Not going to be a popular opinion but that doesn't surprise me at all, almost certainly breaks their tos.

I think people should focus more on stuff like peertube that doesn't just piggyback off another service against said service provider's wishes

[-] JameUwU@lemmy.ml 11 points 11 hours ago

None of the creators I want to follow are on peertube, and I have no social media to ask them to move, nor do I want to engage with those platforms.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 5 points 6 hours ago

Which at the end of the day is your choice, as much as it's theirs not to use foss tools like mastodon and peertube

[-] toastal@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Like wanting to donate but they only offer proprietary, big corpo middlemen options like Patreon or Paypal or Microsoft GitHub Sponsors where they scrape off the top without adding any value.

[-] JameUwU@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 hours ago

Yeah this is also a frustration I have. I dont want to sign up for patreon or Google just to support someone. Give me a Kofi, liberapay or monero option.

[-] comfy@lemmy.ml 4 points 13 hours ago

Sure, I agree, but at the end of the day it's useful to be able to search and watch YouTube videos so long as it's a popular platform because it still has by far the bulk of topics covered.

[-] flashgnash@lemm.ee 2 points 6 hours ago

You can do that through their own interface though, there are browser extensions to do all the things invidious did anyway

Not like going to the website will cause your computer to blow up or something, if privacy is the concern there are plenty of ways to anonymise it

this post was submitted on 22 Sep 2024
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