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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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[+] helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (11 children)

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[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net -1 points 2 months ago (10 children)

"Massive increase" I think needs a source.

And they rely on the network effect to be the de facto standard video hoster. Every little bit of that network that they carve off while they're enshittifying brings them closer to the critical point where people can afford to ditch them.

The logic that they can "afford" to lose marketshare is exactly what will make them keep losing it until people migrate en masse and they lose all of their marketshare.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Youtube is now big enough for not caring about the network effect.

Start companies
make a free product with network effect
gain a lot of users
now that you have your user base, user growth is not as relevant anymore and therefore network effect is not needed anymore
enshitificate for more ad revenue, more tracking and direct subscriptions
profit (finally after decades)

Capitalism is just fucked 🤷🏻🏴‍☠️

[–] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

What? No, the network effect is why they have a dominant position. The network effect comes from their user base.

Enshittification is how platforms die, it's not a winning business model, it's just an outworking of capitalism's contradictions.

The way you wrote that shows you don't understand the principles at all.

I could explain further but you'd have to express interest.

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