Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

    • ThetaDev@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      3 months ago

      Nah, a private instance works fine. Public instances see a lot more traffic and if they use their public IP address for accesing YouTube it is trivial for YT to ban them. If you want to host a public instance, you should use a proxy or VPN for all the YT traffic so yo can easily change the IP address.

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        3 months ago

        I’m having some issues with my private instance that is used solely by myself and not even exposed to the internet.