What's the traffic on invidious? Like, while I don't necessarily agree with the ad-block-block, the profit motive makes sense given their ubiquity. But are there really enough users of alternate YouTube frontends that Google is capturing any meaningful profit? Especially when developer hours are expensive and could be used elsewhere on more valuable projects?

Enshittification is progressing....

I'd rather download each video manually via yt-dlp (previously youtube-dl) than creating and using a google acoount to watch it.

I run invidious at home on my proxmox server. The server is available everywhere with tailscale, so I can use it even when travelling. If Google ever blocks this, nobody at home can watch youtube anymore...

Freetube still seems to work . . .

This is saddening.

I know the invidious contributors have been working on this over the last few months. Looks like they finally got there only to have youtube slam the door. That's a real gut punch.

I already switched to running an instance at home instead of my VPS, so this news doesn't change much for me personally but it's a demonstration that youtube is actively seeking to block the project.

As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.

Brave Browser blocks YT ads seamlessly.

Another reason to ditch corporate pages and embrace freedom.

Some piped instances are still working, thankfully.

Not only invidious I guess, they want the user to login when too many videos has been watched on an IP address. So also web browsers on a VPN for example

I was wondering yesterday why no instance was working, because I always share at least one Invidious link together when sharing YouTube links.

BTW it's not fully blocked, if you can install Invidious locally and use it. But that's not a route I want to go.

What does "fully" mean? I'm watching Dan fucking Rath going on a hilarious rant rn on jing.