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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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