[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.

  • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    45·
    2 months ago

    Wow all this bullying is really convincing me to go back to their shitty platform.

    If i can’t access my fav creators anymore itl just motivate me to do sm productive, like building web3

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        11·
        2 months ago

        Oh no, the execution and information thus far has been horrible. You are alluding to blockchain are you? When i look at the website you post i see absolutely nothing that i even recognize as web3 its all cryptostuff.

        I don’t get why everybody is so hell-bend on blockchain based internet (sure its decentralized but come on, we’re creative enough to do better). Its like people don’t get the point of “user owned” and are expecting companies to build a better internet for them without serving their own interests.

        No, we are going to need to do this ourselves, self host our own data and services, open source everything.

        Lemmy and the fediverse are the closest i have seen to being proto web 3 in spirit and there are also still far from perfect.

        I have read the “What is web3” from that site and could not disagree on the definition more. I would not be suprised if both the blockchain cults and this website are part of the propaganda machine that is stopping a free internet from happening.

        My web3 is aligned much more with this: https://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/user-liberation-watch-and-share-our-new-video

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      If i can’t access my fav creators anymore itl just motivate me to do sm productive

      YT literally does not care. You may not, but I suspect MANY more people will go back to watching ads or signing up for Premium. Just like when Netflix canceled password sharing and everyone complained but their revenue went up by 15%.

      • webghost0101@sopuli.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        I don’t judge people who give in to the oppressor. Life is hard and you have to pick your battles, more important stuff then blocking ads for “normal” people.

        For me its largely a disability/accessibility thing. The whole site is not usable.

        Its not that i want to die on this hill its that corporate bullshit is measurably detrimental to my health. My hill is the only one i can exist on.

        • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
          1·
          2 months ago

          I don’t judge people who give in to the oppressor. Life is hard and you have to pick your battles

          I mean yes and no. There’s giving in because it’s too hard and you have bigger problems, then there’s not giving a single fuck, and then other the other end of that spectrum are the fucking bootlickers who will come out and berate you for choosing not to give in.