[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...

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.

  • @[email protected]English
    14•15 hours ago

    Time to pirate YT content and upload to usenet to be automatically downloaded using sonarr

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_PleaseEnglish
      4•5 hours ago

      Honestly, it would probably be easier to just build a *arr program specifically for downloading YouTube videos directly. Tie it into the rest of the *arr suite, with naming conventions for Plex/Jellyfin.

      • @[email protected]English
        1•3 hours ago

        I would install that, but I fear scraping youtube will be a arms race, soon, similar to other streaming services

    • @[email protected]English
      7•13 hours ago

      Yes but literally throwing together a script to download the days subscription videos to a jellyfin media drive would be stupidly simple.

      • @irreticentEnglish
        2•1 hour ago

        “Stupidly simple” might be overselling it when it comes to the masses adopting it. Not everyone is adept at “throwing together a script.”

        That being said, I’m all for helping the masses adapt.