- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.zip
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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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.
I appreciate the cogent context and solution oriented post.
I'd also say though that from a privacy standpoint self-hosting invidious is still allowing GeoIP info to be attached to downloaded videos, which is a fingerprint which can be used by data mining. Admittedly rather abstract as in this case the primary point of deplatforming might just be to de-ad, or give better video control, etc, and not obfuscate for privacy sake.
As I said though great points!
Can i ask a noobie technical question? here or dm's wherver you are ok with.
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!
For sure peertube is much better than YouTube but needs the adoption of the public and creators
That check all the boxes. Hilarious, accurate and straight to the point. Thanks for sharing.
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
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
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.
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.
I was thinking for ease of documentation not sure what they offer. But they give you paychecks vs random crypto lol
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.
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
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
The day I can no longer download videos from YouTube will be the day I take a step back from it altogether....
yt-dlp now suffers from the same issue that Invidious does: uncircumventable rate-limiting based on IP address.
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.
Same for yt-dlp, currently: It works from your residential IP address, but not a datacenter IP address like a VPN.
If you get Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot or This helps protect our community. in yt-dlp, do not actually try to sign in, because that will get your account banned (see yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10128).
So once a solution is found for Invidious, yt-dlp will be able use it too, and vice versa.
Well, I used invidious the time this post was coming out and I only had a Problem with yewtu.be, the one I host works perfectly to this day
