[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.

  • flashgnash@lemm.ee
    284·
    1 month 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

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        131·
        1 month 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
        23·
        1 month 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.

          • aStonedSanta@lemm.ee
            0·
            1 month ago

            That won’t help the content creator as much with their taxes is my assumption as to why we don’t see it often. Whereas it’s probably a lot easier to report their revenue from patreon.

    • comfy@lemmy.ml
      7·
      1 month 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
        41·
        1 month 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

          • flashgnash@lemm.ee
            2·
            1 month ago

            I suppose if you really can’t stand to give them any information at all, don’t want to pay and don’t use ads your only choice is to not use the service

            They provide a pretty good service all things considered and have to pay the bills for their servers somehow