Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?

  • Norah (pup/it/she)
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    673 days ago

    Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.

    • @[email protected]
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      182 days ago

      It got so bad that couldn’t access YouTube on their official app in my company phone without logging in.

          • @[email protected]
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            42 days ago

            I mean I’m just trying to help.

            Just so you know, this attitude is signing the “I acknowledge I’m stepping in shit and have no right to complain when shit gets on me later” line.

            I’m not trying to side with your boss here, this advice is for your own good.

    • Novaling
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      62 days ago

      Even YT on browser for both my tablet and laptop have gotten mad at me and thrown a hissy for forcing me to login. Less of a problem on my Laptop, because I use Freetube to watch on there, and on my Phone I use Revanced. But man, I just hate watching on my Kindle now, because that shit is old and can barely run Firefox (got it via aurora store, not even in the Amazon appstore 😭) and YT on browser is ass. I tried NewPipe and it crashed all the time, so I got the for PipePipe cause I’m a weeabo, and it worked well but now I get the blocked IP every other day. My tablet crashed when I tried to download Revanced YT on there, so I gave up.

      • Mike Wooskey
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        42 days ago

        That works for me, for a while. I also auto-restart the invidious container stack hourly, per their recommendation. But sooner or later it fails, and usually the fix is to recreate a token. It only takes a minute, but it’s a hassle to do often.