[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.

  • Lord WiggleEnglish
    904·
    24 days ago

    You can still watch YouTube without ads using grayjay.app including sponsor block.

    Thanks to Louis Rossman

    • polleEnglish
      712·
      24 days ago

      Or just use Firefox with ublock?

      • Lord WiggleEnglish
        272·
        24 days ago

        Sure, that works too, however with grayjay you can follow creaters across platforms. So in case someone’s account gets banned by YouTube due to whatever bullshit reason, you can continue following them on other platforms. Next to that you won’t get spammed with Shorts junk. If you want to download a video to watch it offline, you can actually watch it offline (you don’t require a connection like with YouTube to watch something offline)

      • UraniumBlazerEnglish
        552·
        24 days ago

        But ur data gets raped if u don’t use a VPN + no account (but then u don’t get to see age restricted material)

        • MojaveEnglish
          383·
          24 days ago

          Yo did someone hit you in the head with a golf club? Why are you talking like that?

              • I_Miss_DanielEnglish
                140·
                24 days ago

                T9 was a rapid entry system for sending texts using a number pad on a phone.

                Instead of doing hello as 44 33 555 555 666 you could do 43556 and it’d predict ‘hello’.

                • Species5218English
                  100·
                  24 days ago24 days ago

                  Holy shit, someone that ACTUALLY knows what T9 was!

                  Most people think that T9 was the method of typing on the telephone keypad, but no its an improvement on that!

                  Predictive text was another name for it.

                • UraniumBlazerEnglish
                  62·
                  24 days ago

                  Ooookay… How’s that relevant here tho… I’m so confused

                  • I_Miss_DanielEnglish
                    80·
                    24 days ago

                    UraniumBlazer is using contractions such as u instead of you.

                    Back in the early days of texting, this saved time, and potentially money as well since you paid for each 144 (or was it 160) characters.

              • MwaEnglish
                20·
                24 days ago

                bro sounds soo drunk

                • UraniumBlazerEnglish
                  36·
                  24 days ago

                  I swear I’m not. I’m just rlly rlly confused with why people r saying the things they’re saying. I don’t understand.

            • ShepherdPieEnglish
              10·
              24 days ago

              I was already an adult when T9 was still a thing and never texted like this. I could write out full sentences while my phone was still in my pocket.

          • UraniumBlazerEnglish
            83·
            24 days ago

            Isn’t it true tho? YouTube’s a privacy nightmare- they know everything about ur content preferences, ur political learnings, everything. Without a VPN + no account, say goodbye to any semblance of privacy.

    • MwaEnglish
      31·
      24 days ago

      grayjay doesnt have return youtube dislike

      • Lord WiggleEnglish
        141·
        24 days ago

        It has its own like and dislike system, so it’s not cluttered by yt bots.

      • paradox2011English
        40·
        24 days ago

        It does, you can turn it on in the YouTube plugin settings.

        • MwaEnglish
          21·
          24 days ago

          alr i might redownload that app later

      • GHiLAEnglish
        20·
        24 days ago24 days ago

        We can’t complain about everything, here, considering the circumstances.