Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error “Sign in to confirm you are not a bot”. It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.
Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently
I’ve noticed Invidious instances having trouble recently as well. I’m sure they’re not dead though, just need to get the next mouse for the endless cat and mouse game.
You can usually find an invidious instance if you look through redirect.invidious.io. For example, if I try the servers for https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=aQsWzL7_RiI the 6th one down currently works.
Yeah I usually just follow the “try another instance” links until one works.
Seen the same thing. You have to hop around to get high quality
Same thing I’ve noticed with invidious instances lately. My clipious on Android is broken more often than not. Freetube still seems solid although I think they each use different apis.