[Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious
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Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...

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.

  • foremanguy@lemmy.ml
    2·
    54 minutes ago

    Need to use alternatives to YouTube and move the creators to, YouTube is shitting on our face day after day, and the problem is that we can’t hide ourselves to access them since they are blocking Tor and datacenters adresses… Good luck!

  • whoareu@lemmy.ca
    7·
    3 hours ago

    It was expected since it makes sense to cut off users that don’t generate any revenue. YouTube has now became like Instagram or Facebook where you have to make an account to view anything on their platform

    • LarmyOfLone@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 hours ago

      Because they still want to support embedded video you can still watch using apps from your own IP or download using yt-dlp

    • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
      9·
      3 hours ago

      Freetube still works, as well. AFAIK, they’re basically rate-limiting the instances, so alternative clients that connect directly to youtube, as well as small invidious instances are good.

          • FIST_FILLET@lemmy.ml
            2·
            1 hour ago

            watching less youtube was one of my resolutions this year, it’s not going very well. remind me to skip the trash and watch more movies / read more books instead

            • urheber@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
              1·
              25 minutes ago

              i had that same resolution last year, and in the end youtube drove me away from YouTube, I watch about 1 video every two months but even that is usually just for nostalgic reasons. I have no desire to watch YouTube anymore, even though I used to watch at least 5 hours a day. All that because of their anti consumer actions.

        • Prunebutt@slrpnk.net
          2·
          3 hours ago

          Not watching so many videos, I guess. Maybe get a Nebula subscription (ersonally, I watch a lot of video essays).