[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...
  • Moonrise2473@feddit.it
    30·
    2 months ago

    Not only invidious I guess, they want the user to login when too many videos has been watched on an IP address. So also web browsers on a VPN for example

  • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
    27·
    2 months ago

    This is saddening.

    I know the invidious contributors have been working on this over the last few months. Looks like they finally got there only to have youtube slam the door. That’s a real gut punch.

    I already switched to running an instance at home instead of my VPS, so this news doesn’t change much for me personally but it’s a demonstration that youtube is actively seeking to block the project.

    As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.

    • Lime Buzz@beehaw.org
      10·
      2 months ago

      As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.

      Even after it has this is very unlikely because part of the appeal of youtube is getting paid for work and most people either don’t have the money to pay for it, choose not to or hate the platforms through which creators ask to get paid through.

      Like it or not, either it’ll be another tech company who will later do this exact same thing or we need more people willing to pay and less shitty platforms through which they can do so i.e. not VC backed/supported.

      • fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc
        7·
        2 months ago

        Perhaps. I think consumers are more willing to pay producers than they have been in the past. I acknowledge that the time is not yet right, but with time, the less appealing youtube is the more likely alternatives will become.

      • beliquititious@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        1·
        2 months ago

        There aren’t many ways to organize raising the money required to build a better youtube or reddit. You could kickstart it, but you’d better hope whoever does the dev doesn’t sell. Another option would be a large open source ngo funding the development, but you’re still talking long timelines to completion.

        There definitely is room for a more pro-social social media platform that isn’t a clone of something else. Paying for it is another matter.

  • HumbleFlamingo@beehaw.org
    17·
    2 months ago

    Youtube is blocking large/public instances of Invidious, not all instances.

    Can we please not do the click bait/rage bait thing here?

      • orcrist@lemm.ee
        2·
        2 months ago

        The point is that the post title was false (or intentionally very misleading, if you insist on creatively parsing it). Accuracy in post titles is important.

  • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
    16·
    2 months ago

    Enshittification is progressing…

    I’d rather download each video manually via yt-dlp (previously youtube-dl) than creating and using a google acoount to watch it.

  • thingsiplay@beehaw.org
    12·
    2 months ago

    I was wondering yesterday why no instance was working, because I always share at least one Invidious link together when sharing YouTube links.

    BTW it’s not fully blocked, if you can install Invidious locally and use it. But that’s not a route I want to go.

  • jabathekek@sopuli.xyz
    10·
    2 months ago

    What does “fully” mean? I’m watching Dan fucking Rath going on a hilarious rant rn on jing.

    • captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.deOP
      32·
      2 months ago

      According to one of the maintainers

      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.

    • morrowind@lemmy.ml
      13·
      2 months ago

      Some instances will continue for a bit, but it’s probably a matter of time, or until invidious figures out another method

  • pimeys@lemmy.nauk.io
    9·
    2 months ago

    I run invidious at home on my proxmox server. The server is available everywhere with tailscale, so I can use it even when travelling. If Google ever blocks this, nobody at home can watch youtube anymore…

    • Fisch@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Freetube just loads the videos from YouTube directly if you don’t activate the proxy option (which will use Invidious or Piped, haven’t used Freetube in a while so idk which one it was)

    • orcrist@lemm.ee
      2·
      2 months ago

      Lots of options available. YT is slowly cracking down on them. That’s OK, just keep your medium run media consumption plans flexible.

  • Ms. Falcon@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    2·
    11 days ago

    honestly i know there’s other frontends still working but i’m just gonna say this… fuck youtube

    i swear so many things i’ve heard about it makes me think youtube is falling off and i fear it would probably die somewhere in the future

    • django@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      1·
      11 days ago

      Many videos require a login now, due to weird age restrictions. YouTube is becoming increasingly useless.

  • off_brand_@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 months ago

    What’s the traffic on invidious? Like, while I don’t necessarily agree with the ad-block-block, the profit motive makes sense given their ubiquity. But are there really enough users of alternate YouTube frontends that Google is capturing any meaningful profit? Especially when developer hours are expensive and could be used elsewhere on more valuable projects?