Youtube has fully blocked Invidious
Youtube has fully blocked Invidious
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...
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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.
Newpipe still kicking. Sorry for invidious tho.
Freetube still works, as well. AFAIK, they're basically rate-limiting the instances, so alternative clients that connect directly to youtube, as well as small invidious instances are good.
Gotta love FreeTube. PokeTube also works decently, although it only supports subscriptions via RSS.
Title is kinda misleading. The issue only affects public instances, and it has been an ongoing problem since many months ago. Basically the moment youtube detects lots of traffic from one IP it gets blocked, and need sign-in.
It seems this block just became harder to work around, and they started blocking all IPs from hosting providers, but I'm sure a solution will be found eventually.
If you have a spare laptop/PC/raspberry pi you can host your own invidious in your home. It won't get blocked, it will be much faster, and you can use options that are usually disabled on public instances (the API and DASH quality).
Then you can add something like tailscale/twingate into the mix to access it outside your home. Self hosted wireguard can also work if your ISP gives you a static IP or you setup a DDNS service. I personally use twingate because I don't like opening any port in my router.
I appreciate the cogent context and solution oriented post.
I'd also say though that from a privacy standpoint self-hosting invidious is still allowing GeoIP info to be attached to downloaded videos, which is a fingerprint which can be used by data mining. Admittedly rather abstract as in this case the primary point of deplatforming might just be to de-ad, or give better video control, etc, and not obfuscate for privacy sake.
As I said though great points!
Can i ask a noobie technical question? here or dm's wherver you are ok with.
Need to use alternatives to YouTube and move the creators to, YouTube is shitting on our face day after day, and the problem is that we can't hide ourselves to access them since they are blocking Tor and datacenters adresses... Good luck!
That is a very unpleasant analogy
Not going to be a popular opinion but that doesn't surprise me at all, almost certainly breaks their tos.
I think people should focus more on stuff like peertube that doesn't just piggyback off another service against said service provider's wishes
Sure, I agree, but at the end of the day it's useful to be able to search and watch YouTube videos so long as it's a popular platform because it still has by far the bulk of topics covered.
It was expected since it makes sense to cut off users that don't generate any revenue. YouTube has now became like Instagram or Facebook where you have to make an account to view anything on their platform
Because they still want to support embedded video you can still watch using apps from your own IP or download using yt-dlp
The day I can no longer download videos from YouTube will be the day I take a step back from it altogether....
At what point/what would it take for yt-dlp to be shut down?
yt-dl was “shut down” at one point. That led to vastly more interest and the birth of yt-dlp. I think they learned their lesson.
Never. Even if yt blocks the program from downloading from its site, it can still pull from like 10,000 other sites. I doubt google could do anything to actually stop the software from being distributed. We all know how that goes.
It is a very useful piece of software. I've never used it to actually download a youtube video.
yt-dlp now suffers from the same issue that Invidious does: uncircumventable rate-limiting based on IP address.
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.
Same for yt-dlp, currently: It works from your residential IP address, but not a datacenter IP address like a VPN.
If you get Sign in to confirm that you're not a bot or This helps protect our community. in yt-dlp, do not actually try to sign in, because that will get your account banned (see yt-dlp/yt-dlp#10128).
So once a solution is found for Invidious, yt-dlp will be able use it too, and vice versa.
@captainkangaroo rip, glad grayjay still works atleast
Well, I used invidious the time this post was coming out and I only had a Problem with yewtu.be, the one I host works perfectly to this day
Yes, the one you host will continue to work assuming it doesn’t have an IP that is easily tied to a Datacenter.