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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.

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[–] GhiLA 88 points 2 months ago (2 children)

yt-dlp still works.

A spark of hope in a dim world.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

My god, what if its on google's chopping block next?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago

Donate to the EFF for fighting that fight in court already.

[–] GhiLA 4 points 2 months ago

I often consider the scenario.

What would I do if Google straight sniped and headshot every single method of piracy, even embedding the ads into the video?

"He'll pay now!*

Nah, never. People are more momentary, at least I am. I don't care if I'm being entertained by "X". If "X" isn't worth the trouble, there's "Y". The days of everyone even caring to digest the same media as anyone else is over unless your main drugs are pop music, Asmongold reacting to politics and influencers.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

I've seen it go down in some cases on VPNs, so it could be a matter of time (or they'll find a solution again and the back and forth will just continue).