[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 Wiggle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      262·
      2 months 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)

    • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
      552·
      2 months 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)

      • Mojave@lemmy.worldEnglish
        373·
        2 months ago

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

            • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
              14·
              2 months 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’.

              • Species5218@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                9·
                2 months 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.

                • I_Miss_Daniel@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  8·
                  2 months 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.

                  • Rob T Firefly@lemmy.worldEnglish
                    134·
                    2 months ago

                    And in the modern era there’s generally no practical reason to use “u” for “you” and so forth anymore, and doing so just makes you seem weirdly lazy, elderly, childish, and really out of touch all at once.

              • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
                26·
                2 months 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
            1·
            2 months 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.

        • UraniumBlazer@lemm.eeEnglish
          83·
          2 months 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.