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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)
submitted 1 month 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] 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

newpiped and freetube will continue to work but piped is also blocked as well

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Doesn’t freetube use invidious api?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can use invidious, but also works without it. Unless Google decides to mess with that too. Was broken for a few days like a month ago or smth

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Freetube is still working on my machine as of today for what it's worth.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

It directly pulls Videos from Google servers unlike Invidious U can use Invidious on it but I doubt it works so well

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

It also has a local API