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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/technology

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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22423685

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] 16 points 6 days ago (4 children)

For Android users, I highly recommend NewPipe as a YouTube client

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 days ago

Revanced is also very nice if you prefer the regular YouTube layout and experience

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

Or Tubular, which is an up to date fork with Sponsorblock support as well

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[–] capital 15 points 6 days ago

Self hosted option is a docker image. Probably not difficult to set up.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If you have the resources, host your own to help and spread the load across public instances.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

They said:

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.

and I imagine that most people that host something like this do so using a VPS. Homelabs tend to be the minority use case.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago

Didn't Odysee recently removed ads? Anyway, I think I'll start watching videos on Odysee and peertube, via RSS feeds. At least from youtubers that upload there.

[–] firepenny 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

So if Google can ban our IP if caught using this, could you not use some type of dynamic IP mechanism every time they ban the IP?

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

I wonder if some kind of mesh might work. Maybe like a secret Santa type deal. By that I mean everyone who connects, gets a randomised, anonymous partner or partners. Everyone in the swarm streams for each other.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

many instances of piped and invidious still work though

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