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.

  • KillingTimeItself
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    12 months ago

    this is the primary reason i advocate for more piracy, and even legal protections for piracy, in some capacity.

    It’s one of the few spaces i consider to be a “truly free market” when it comes to economics.

    • @A_Random_Idiot
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      2 months ago

      I’m more and more inclined towards the idea of piracy myself as time goes on and media continues to shave itself down into more and more ridiculous, unrelated shards, that you have to subscribe to just to be able to SEE if they have what you want.

      I don’t actively do it actively since I dont really know where to begin, and things I have found have been to sketch for me, or requiring memberships or even payments to join.

      • KillingTimeItself
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        12 months ago

        if you’re looking for the babies first torrenting introduction, dbzer0 has a pretty comprehensive guide on it.

        Might be worth looking into i2p as well, if you don’t want to spend any money on it at least. Usenets and closed trackers are a weird one, usually based on memberships, but with good quality control of members and content so.

        there’s also the *arr stack but im sure there’s a write of that one up on github or something.

        • @A_Random_Idiot
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          12 months ago

          I poked around dbzer0 and found a few streaming sites, Nothing which carried anything i was particularly interested in.

          Navigating this stuff without my ISP getting pissy is another hurdle, too.

          It was much easier 20+ years ago when you just searched KaZaA or Limewire, or back when piratebay was the site (and before it got drowned in virus traps)

          • KillingTimeItself
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            12 months ago

            https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

            check out the megathread for generic info and recommendations.

            https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30062 specific thread for i2p, there’s plenty more information out there, you can also ask me about a few things as well.

            the TL;DR for doing it without ur isp bonking u is to use a VPN, or a seedbox, which are options. Though you’ll ideally want to use anonymous payment services like monero instead of something else, if you really want to be secure.

            from what i understand, private trackers are generally fine and secure, aside from the fact that ur isp might not like the traffic, but that’s a fault of the ISP, not the law. torrenting is perfectly legal. Though using a VPN is probably still recommended anyway.

            navigating malicious software is kind of hit or miss now, but it’s more likely you’ll find them on bigger reaching platforms, and in actual software, rather than like, mp3s or movies. That’s just basic opsec though. (again private trackers are beneficial for this reason, they have better QA and vetting)