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Are there any working instances of Invidious left? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by to c/opensource@lemmy.ml
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I really hope the answer is "yes," but gosh-darned if I can find one. The FreeTube app still works as long as my VPN is off, but as for Invidious . . . (also, sorry if this has already been covered earlier).

EDIT: Ok, well now it looks like I can get FreeTube to work with some Mullvad locations but not others . . .

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[–] 6 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Self-hosted piped/invidious still working great if you want to follow this route. Everything from no-ads/sponsor block/comments works without any issues.

One downside however, is that you're exposing your own public IP to Google/YouTube :/.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    YouTube has blocked a bunch of IP ranges, including residential ones, forcing people to use an account to watch videos. So self-hosting isn't an option for everyone.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (6 children)

    Oho? Didn't knew that. Thanks for the info ! Do you know what caused the residential IP block ?

    • Outside of EU?
    • To much API calls from the same source?
    • Something else?

    I mean, I don't see way they would block residential IPs with normal api calls from the same source. Or are they full enforcing the account thing on everyone?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (5 children)

    I don't know. My ISP doesn't know. And I won't bother interacting with Google's non-existing support.

    My solution is moving away from YouTube whenever possible, for instance subscripting to podcast instead when a creator has a podcast with the same content.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (4 children)

    Luckily most casts are just an RSS feed so you do not need an special tooling. It is a real shame many are putting their content behind walls like Spotify.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Yes, but many YouTube channels don't have a RSS podcast equivalent. YouTube is somewhat of a walled garden, like Spotify is.

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