[Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious
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Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...

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.

  • @Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    8•3 hours ago

    People can always just stop using YouTube. It’s getting laughable the level of Stockholm syndrome people have for that shit service.

    • @TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      4•1 hour ago

      The problem is, there’s just no (good) direct competition. The audience will follow creators once enough of them switch to the same alternative platform. But as long as there’s no platform with a comparable amount of money behind it, most people will continue to use Youtube.

      • @Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        3•26 minutes ago

        There doesn’t need to be direct competition. Just stop watching YouTube. If someone cannot do that- they have an addiction, and ads are not their biggest problem.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1•24 minutes ago

        Eh, there are some competitors:

        • Nebula - costs $5/month; can get a discount if you find a creator’s discount code (I used NotJustBikes, can check out LegalEagle, HalfAsinteresting, or any of the others if you want; I got 50% off a year sub)
        • Odyssee - pretty much the OG alternative to YT - I follow a few there
        • Rumble - much better funded, but caters to conservatives and far-right, but there are some more moderate videos there (I like Glenn Greenwald, except for anything related to Russia); I think it’s funny that it has been blocked by some countries for allowing pro-Russian content, while also being blocked by Russia (this year) for not removing content

        I sub to some channels from each (as well as Twitch and YT) though Grayjay, which seems to work pretty well. I’d say about 50% of my video watch time is on YouTube, 15-20% on Odyssee, 20-30% on Nebula, and a little on Rumble. I try to watch Nebula videos on the Nebula app so creators get credited with watch time, but I honestly prefer Grayjay.

        I’ve been trying to cut down on how much I watch anyway, so hopefully I’ll be able to slowly eliminate YT from my life.

    • e$tGyr#J2pqM8vEnglish
      3•1 hour ago

      That’s a fair point. There’s a million things you could do, and watching videos on YT is just one of them. Watching videos online has become a large part of peoples lives. Surely it has a lot to offer, but we should probably not forget it also replaces a lot of things, things we would spent are time on otherwise, if we didn’t have YT as an easy time-drain, and those other things are presumably equally rewarding or more so.

    • @jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9•2 hours ago

      I pay for Nebula and, although there’s a lot to watch there, skimming through the boring stuff is horrible.

      • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1•25 minutes ago

        Same. I mostly watch a handful of channels:

        • various TLDR channels
        • Morning Brew - not a fan of the hosts, so I’ll catch maybe one/week
        • LegalEagle - anything not about celebs
        • the Friday Checkout
        • NotJustBikes and other city infra-related channels - they don’t post often though
        • RealLifeLore
        • Wendover/HalfAsInteresting - the host annoys me a bit, but the content is usually pretty good

        There’s a ton of nonsense there that I don’t like, but now that I found a set of channels I do like, I mostly just look in the “library” tab so I don’t have to see the other crap.

      • @Soup@lemmy.cafeEnglish
        2•2 hours ago

        It’s good to see alternatives. I am not at the point where I need to see online videos badly enough that I’d pay for it- but it’s good to know that it exists.