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YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

For FYI:

Install Freetube

Install LibRedirect on FF.

On settings point it to send YT links to Freetube.

I used Tab Wrangler to auto close tabs, so this will close tabs that are created after whatever time when pushing YT links, I have that set to a minute.

I am lazy and use KDEConnect, to my PC connected TV to send links. Like a remote.

Push links from any client, I use NewPipe. As it also has my channel subscriptions.

Enjoy, until Indivious is fixed. Could use other services but Freetube is pretty good and fast. Takes your own subscriptions too. Pipe like some others use JS, which I avoid and you have a lot of control over Freetube. This is easy to revert once everything his working.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

If that is the case then adoption should be easier.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

yt-dlp FTW! https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/yt-dlp#Faster_downloads

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The end is near

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

YouTube itself altered something on their end making it so that invidious does not work. Here is the post about it from their official mastodon page

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Thanks. Here is the link as well : https://social.tchncs.de/@invidious/112184892221966052

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

That's why my smarttube in google tv is too slow or doesn't even load

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

still going hard on the yt-dlp stuff it into any existing media player backend and call it a day, crowd.

Highly recommend. Works well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Finding piped instances that are close and working is becoming harder

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

AFAIK this is not what's happening this time. YouTube slowly rolled out a change over the past 3 days that requires some sort of app verification for the android yt app. This is affecting Invidious since it emulates the yt android client to fetch video streams. This affects invidious instances hosted privately as well.

The maintainers are aware of this, and are working on ways to solve it. Tools like yt-dlp/newpipe still work because they have working implementations to fetch data by emulating web/iOS/etc clients.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I think it would be cool if invidious had a way of hosting content on its own. You could EEE YouTube

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I had to update and re patch my revanced app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Was a whole process and a half for me. I ended up finally getting it though.

I'd rather just not watch YouTube if I'd have to watch it with ads through their shitty regular app.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I feel like there needs to be a peered youtube client. As people watching youtube download the videos and later share it with other people who want to watch it. YT will have a much harder time differentiating and actually, it might even help them with bandwidth.

If this were done with IPFS, there would also automatically be backups of the videos, which maybe The Internet Archive (and other archivers) would be happy about.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

i believe to some degree, that this is what that one youtube alternative did.

Although you could pretty easily implement this into youtube. Would be pretty cool if it was very minimal on the backend, such that people like me could also get involved. I archive yt manually, have TBs of it. Provided read access only to it and having it integrate into a global frontend would be pretty cool.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Manually arriving it sounds like quite the hassle, I throw Tubearchivist out there

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

it's not that bad honestly, it allows you to curate everything to whatever needs you have, plus writing a script to automatically archive the more regular shit makes it a lot easier.

Though yeah, you can just use something like tubearchivist.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Interesting idea.

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