- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
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.
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Newpipe still kicking. Sorry for invidious tho.
The day newpipe dies is the day I leave YouTube behind
And move to what? Sadly YouTube is monopoly right now :/
We don’t have to watch YouTube… :)
Sadly, this is not simple like this. Of course, there is “haha I will touch grass now”, but there are pieces of content that are needed yet there’s no analog elsewhere. Disassembly guides for random pieces of tech. Lectures. Task breakdowns from competitions. A lot of things the original uploaders put there and just forgot.
Youtube has far too much held hostage.
I think it’s just a matter of sacrificing that for the good of all, otherwise you will never leave YouTube and the monopoly keeps exploiting you.
But a better service needs to arrive first by someone, and that seems unlikely, given the cost to store video.
I mean, I can only do my part by downloading everything I like or may need - in fear of it potentially being taken away. But not sure where I’d reupload it.
Title is kinda misleading. The issue only affects public instances, and it has been an ongoing problem since many months ago. Basically the moment youtube detects lots of traffic from one IP it gets blocked, and need sign-in.
It seems this block just became harder to work around, and they started blocking all IPs from hosting providers, but I’m sure a solution will be found eventually.
If you have a spare laptop/PC/raspberry pi you can host your own invidious in your home. It won’t get blocked, it will be much faster, and you can use options that are usually disabled on public instances (the API and DASH quality).
Then you can add something like tailscale/twingate into the mix to access it outside your home. Self hosted wireguard can also work if your ISP gives you a static IP or you setup a DDNS service. I personally use twingate because I don’t like opening any port in my router.
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
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.
The day I can no longer download videos from YouTube will be the day I take a step back from it altogether…
At what point/what would it take for yt-dlp to be shut down?
yt-dl was “shut down” at one point. That led to vastly more interest and the birth of yt-dlp. I think they learned their lesson.
