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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious
(github.com)
At what point/what would it take for yt-dlp to be shut down?
Title is kinda misleading. The issue only affects public instances, and it has been an ongoing problem since many months ago. Basically the moment youtube detects lots of traffic from one IP it gets blocked, and need sign-in.
It seems this block just became harder to work around, and they started blocking all IPs from hosting providers, but I'm sure a solution will be found eventually.
If you have a spare laptop/PC/raspberry pi you can host your own invidious in your home. It won't get blocked, it will be much faster, and you can use options that are usually disabled on public instances (the API and DASH quality).
Then you can add something like tailscale/twingate into the mix to access it outside your home. Self hosted wireguard can also work if your ISP gives you a static IP or you setup a DDNS service. I personally use twingate because I don't like opening any port in my router.
I appreciate the cogent context and solution oriented post.
I'd also say though that from a privacy standpoint self-hosting invidious is still allowing GeoIP info to be attached to downloaded videos, which is a fingerprint which can be used by data mining. Admittedly rather abstract as in this case the primary point of deplatforming might just be to de-ad, or give better video control, etc, and not obfuscate for privacy sake.
As I said though great points!
I feel like I only know just enough about docker containers to get myself into trouble.
I’ve ran a few docker containers for things like Minecraft Bedrock for my kid and his friends and a local Ubooquity server and stuff like that but I’m wondering if anyone has made a guide for glutun VPN bind + an Invidious instance with tailscale/twingate setup you mentioned.
I am just an iPhone pleb who really loved using Yattee while it worked and assume a similar setup to what you described would allow me to point my Yattee to the self-hosted instance.
The day I can no longer download videos from YouTube will be the day I take a step back from it altogether....
Need to use alternatives to YouTube and move the creators to, YouTube is shitting on our face day after day, and the problem is that we can't hide ourselves to access them since they are blocking Tor and datacenters adresses... Good luck!
That is a very unpleasant analogy
Just gonna leave this here
Holy shit that's fuckin' awesome XD
For sure peertube is much better than YouTube but needs the adoption of the public and creators
That check all the boxes. Hilarious, accurate and straight to the point. Thanks for sharing.
Newpipe still kicking. Sorry for invidious tho.
The day newpipe dies is the day I leave YouTube behind
And move to what? Sadly YouTube is monopoly right now :/
We don't have to watch YouTube... :)
watching less youtube was one of my resolutions this year, it’s not going very well. remind me to skip the trash and watch more movies / read more books instead
i had that same resolution last year, and in the end youtube drove me away from YouTube, I watch about 1 video every two months but even that is usually just for nostalgic reasons. I have no desire to watch YouTube anymore, even though I used to watch at least 5 hours a day. All that because of their anti consumer actions.
Not watching so many videos, I guess. Maybe get a Nebula subscription (ersonally, I watch a lot of video essays).
Get a dog. It'll absorb much of the free time that YouTube used to waste, but in a far more rewarding manner.
Freetube still works, as well. AFAIK, they're basically rate-limiting the instances, so alternative clients that connect directly to youtube, as well as small invidious instances are good.
There's also ghostarchive, which they cannot block
Why not?
Nice. I'm going to look into that. Haven't heard of that yet.
It was expected since it makes sense to cut off users that don't generate any revenue. YouTube has now became like Instagram or Facebook where you have to make an account to view anything on their platform
Because they still want to support embedded video you can still watch using apps from your own IP or download using yt-dlp
Vance works for me
Sadly it can only view videos that feature sexy couches
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