[Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious
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Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...

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.

    • @[email protected]
      12•5 hours ago

      Freetube still works, as well. AFAIK, they’re basically rate-limiting the instances, so alternative clients that connect directly to youtube, as well as small invidious instances are good.

      • Hellfire103English
        1•3 hours ago

        Gotta love FreeTube. PokeTube also works decently, although it only supports subscriptions via RSS.

      • whoareu
        12•5 hours ago

        And move to what? Sadly YouTube is monopoly right now :/

          • @[email protected]
            4•3 hours ago

            watching less youtube was one of my resolutions this year, it’s not going very well. remind me to skip the trash and watch more movies / read more books instead

            • @[email protected]English
              3•2 hours ago

              i had that same resolution last year, and in the end youtube drove me away from YouTube, I watch about 1 video every two months but even that is usually just for nostalgic reasons. I have no desire to watch YouTube anymore, even though I used to watch at least 5 hours a day. All that because of their anti consumer actions.

        • @[email protected]
          5•5 hours ago

          Not watching so many videos, I guess. Maybe get a Nebula subscription (ersonally, I watch a lot of video essays).

          • @[email protected]English
            6•4 hours ago

            Get a dog. It’ll absorb much of the free time that YouTube used to waste, but in a far more rewarding manner.