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.
The day newpipe dies is the day I leave YouTube behind
And move to what? Sadly YouTube is monopoly right now :/
We don’t have to watch YouTube… :)
Sadly, this is not simple like this. Of course, there is “haha I will touch grass now”, but there are pieces of content that are needed yet there’s no analog elsewhere. Disassembly guides for random pieces of tech. Lectures. Task breakdowns from competitions. A lot of things the original uploaders put there and just forgot.
Youtube has far too much held hostage.
I think it’s just a matter of sacrificing that for the good of all, otherwise you will never leave YouTube and the monopoly keeps exploiting you.
But a better service needs to arrive first by someone, and that seems unlikely, given the cost to store video.
I mean, I can only do my part by downloading everything I like or may need - in fear of it potentially being taken away. But not sure where I’d reupload it.
watching less youtube was one of my resolutions this year, it’s not going very well. remind me to skip the trash and watch more movies / read more books instead
i had that same resolution last year, and in the end youtube drove me away from YouTube, I watch about 1 video every two months but even that is usually just for nostalgic reasons. I have no desire to watch YouTube anymore, even though I used to watch at least 5 hours a day. All that because of their anti consumer actions.
But where will I get my 4 hour lives streams devoid of any meaningful content??
hoopla, Kanopy, Udemy.
all available through my library
YouTube doesn’t have a monopoly on live streams
Not watching so many videos, I guess. Maybe get a Nebula subscription (ersonally, I watch a lot of video essays).
Get a dog. It’ll absorb much of the free time that YouTube used to waste, but in a far more rewarding manner.
Kanopy
“And move to what?”
To having a better life.
I like YouTube as much as the guy next to me, but at this point we have become to Dependant to it. Instead of watching quality content like movies, series, documentaries or animation; we end watching someone talking about that on YouTube. When we find nothing good on the platform we end watching something we don’t care about just to have something to watch or having as background noise. Some people can’t even enjoy a meal or sleep without YouTube. At this point YouTube is more numbing the TV ever was.
I hate what they are doing, trying to block Invidious, Newpipe and the ability to watch the platform without ads. But at the end it’ll be the best for all of us except for YouTube.
Eventually YouTube will die and a new shitty monopoly will step in.
Peertube is a thing but getting people to upload to it is gonna be tricky