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Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

GrayJay is the only one that seems to still work without issue but it's getting updates very regularly.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Invidious and YouTube piped (and LibreTube) by default load the videos server-side, as opposed to GrayJay, NewPipe or Smarttube.

It has advantages (mostly that your IP address is not shared with YouTube, and it allows users from countries where YouTube is blocked to still access it) and inconvenients (much harder to keep up when YouTube actively seeks to block them).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Invidious shares your IP with google, it does not act as a proxy

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I guess this reply lost its “by default” part on the way 🤔

[–] [email protected] -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty confident that you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

https://docs.invidious.io/faq/#q-what-data-is-shared-with-youtube

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fair enough, that's interesting. I assume this only applies to the non-web clients. On the web, it would not be possible. You can verify by looking at the outgoing network requests on this random video for example: https://invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=qKMcKQCQxxI

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

On the web, it would not be possible.

Why not?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Because of the CORS settings on Google's servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request. There are two ways it could eventually be possible:

By opening the video in a new page/tab that only contains the video, with the YouTube player, which defeats the purpose a bit.
By installing an addon or an app on your device.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I haven't checked the CORS headers for YouTube videos but wouldn't access have to be fairly open to allow embedded videos to work?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

For that they use iframes, which have a different security system.