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[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 147 points 3 months ago (5 children)

I've seen the effects on invidious these past days. 8 in 10 instances have been broken. Google is putting some serious work into shutting alternate frontends down. Shows you how much of a dent they're putting in the bottom line.

[–] Zorque@lemmy.world 63 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Shows you how much of a dent they’re putting in the bottom line.

Or how desperate google execs are to get even the tiniest bump in revenue.

[–] Zidane@lemmy.world 34 points 3 months ago

LINE MUST GO UP AT ALL TIMES

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 3 months ago

I doubt it's denting the bottom* line as much as the recent court rulings. And I doubt it's as much paying bills as it is paying vested interests.

I remember Hooktube. That was when front ends were still trying to play nice by accessing youtube the "right way".

They killed that one off pretty hastily.

Invidious was the hero successor, but I think we all knew that it would eventually come to this. Invidious' most recent fixes for blocking involve passing identity tokens, making a concession that Google is then better able to track users behind Invidious.

I'm not sure how much farther there is left to go on the technical angle of this fight.