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Youtube has fully blocked Invidious (github.com)

submitted 2 months ago by captainkangaroo@discuss.tchncs.de to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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.

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[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 53 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

The elites don't want you to know but "[y]ou may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home)"

Following their guide gives a local Invidious client, don't forget to 1) copy their production compose file instead of using the one on git and 2) change "hmac_key"... from my experience setting up cron (crontab -e) to restart the docker container once per day keeps the Invidious docker healthy

Edit: here are some alternatives for popular Google services. Not in anyway related to the above (smirk

Google itself: SearXNG (try searx.be first), one of the easiest services to self-host
Gmail/calendar: a lot of people seem to swear by one of Proton Mail, Tutanota or Mailbox.org. Self-hosting is possible but challenging
Google Drive: You mean Nextcloud?
Google maps: Organic Maps is actually getting pretty good now
Google Chrome: at the very least there is Chromium... obviously there is Firefox and Firefox forks (such as Librewolf), as well as other smaller browsers
Google Play: F-Droid hosts a lot of FOSS stuff, and there are alternative ways to access Play (such as Aurora Store)
Android: a bit more difficult... but there is LineageOS, GrapheneOS, and similar stuff

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

At least until they start blacklisting IPs using Invidious.

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

One of the positives of nat

[–] MangoPenguin@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago

CGNAT at least.

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