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.
As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.
Even after it has this is very unlikely because part of the appeal of youtube is getting paid for work and most people either don’t have the money to pay for it, choose not to or hate the platforms through which creators ask to get paid through.
Like it or not, either it’ll be another tech company who will later do this exact same thing or we need more people willing to pay and less shitty platforms through which they can do so i.e. not VC backed/supported.
Perhaps. I think consumers are more willing to pay producers than they have been in the past. I acknowledge that the time is not yet right, but with time, the less appealing youtube is the more likely alternatives will become.
Some piped instances are still working, thankfully.
Another reason to ditch corporate pages and embrace freedom.
Sadly the amount and variance of videos on peertube pales in comparison to youtube. I need my Sherlock Holmes audio books 😩
I really wish more youtube producers would cross post to other platforms.
Have they added safety features like denying follows yet?
Also, they really need to create apps for all platforms, this would increase their popularity and usability.
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.
According to one of the maintainers
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.
Some instances will continue for a bit, but it’s probably a matter of time, or until invidious figures out another method
