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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

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YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances

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Privacy@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

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7 months ago
Yeah. Because youtube pays them for ads. If they didn’t, it would all be sponsorships, donations, and merch.

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