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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Same way they do on YT. Viewer contributions + sponsor spots + merch. They only miss out on ad revenue (which I concede is not insignificant).

Nebula is ok but I took 1 look at their privacy policy and passed.

[–] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So you want them to take a huge pay cut? To what benefit, just YoUTubE bAd?

[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

To literally everyone's benefit except YouTube.

Viewer don't have to submit themselves to Google's horrific practices and policies, and creators get the freedom to post what they want without some 3rd party determining it's illegal when it's not and taking it down or giving all of their income to someone else.

I'm not telling anyone what to do, I'm just pointing out that it's not impossible.