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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 3 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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (7 children)

If you have the resources, host your own to help and spread the load across public instances.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Didn't Odysee recently removed ads? Anyway, I think I'll start watching videos on Odysee and peertube, via RSS feeds. At least from youtubers that upload there.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

So if Google can ban our IP if caught using this, could you not use some type of dynamic IP mechanism every time they ban the IP?

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I would suggest the devs to be able to create instances from within tor. It would be slow, but impossible to block. Or from any other network that don’t rely on single IP access to YouTube . Or, make a mesh of collaborative home instances. Google can’t block millions of home IPs. Or use any mesh collaborative network capable of it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

TOR exit node IP addresses are well-known. If YouTube wants to, they can just block the TOR network.

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