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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...

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.

          • Cistello@reddthat.comEnglish
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            2 months ago

            Pretty much every Alternative Tech platform also has a huge far right population Lemmy is an exception to this but has a decently sized far left population instead I dunno how it is now but a lot of people complained a couple of weeks ago about Nazis joining Bluesky and one of the guys from Bluesky covering them

            • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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              2 months ago

              that’s true, but platforms like rumble were created to be homes to the far right. we shouldn’t encourage their existence.

            • elbucho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Well that’s not true. You’re very pro-genocide, as long as it’s against Palestinians. That’s pretty political.

      • hostops@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Competitor with no content, users is not a competitor. Youtube should be forced to share content they do not own. Just for the sake of competition.

        • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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          2 months ago

          The content isn’t the problem. It’s the delivery system. No one else has the storage and network capacity that Youtube has. And as a result of that, no one else has the built-in audience Youtube has. Putting your videos on YT is simply the best way to get views.

    • scarabic@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Paying Nebula subscriber here 🙋‍♂️

      Pony up or your call for a competitor doesn’t mean anything. People don’t want ads? Fine. There has to be another revenue stream. Server capacity costs money, making a website and app cost money, and video creators need to eat.

      • Beej Jorgensen@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I do pony up for other services (not YT Premium because I won’t give Google any money) and support a significant number of creators via Patreon, giving them more money by far than they’d ever see from me from ads. And I’ve spent thousands of hours on my own dime making written content and giving it away for nothing with no ads or tracking. So yes, I agree.