Why is there only one invidious instance left?

[not_io@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?

[letak@lemm.ee]

There is also nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev
But I don’t know where I found it.

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.

[unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz]

Is it a cool game? Can you host your own?

[gon@lemm.ee]

Tyler themselves has several instances, including hosting other alternative frontends.

Check them out here.

[coldmoon@sh.itjust.works]

It’s a YouTube front end.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

Did you run the token generator thing? Worked for me a couple days ago (but not over a VPN).

[rikj000@discuss.tchncs.de]

YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.

Vanilla Invidious currently doesn't work well,
so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks, here's the source code if you're interested:
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidious

I've got big respect for Fijxu,
he's been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.

If you can please consider:

• Donating for their work/hosting
• Hosting their fork on your own
• Solving open issues with pull requests to their fork

All the above can help Fijxu,
since currently he's mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.

[princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

I haven't, no.

[cris16228@lemmy.today]

Vanilla Invidious currently doesn't work well, so most hosters paused and/or gave up.

This is the reason why I stopped to host my own. It's so painful to maintain

[mwa@lemm.ee]

You can dig deep for instances not on the list but this isn't recommended

[acockworkorange@mander.xyz]

It got so bad that couldn’t access YouTube on their official app in my company phone without logging in.

[hellfire103@lemmy.ca]

Because Google are dicks.

[mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com]

That works for me, for a while. I also auto-restart the invidious container stack hourly, per their recommendation. But sooner or later it fails, and usually the fix is to recreate a token. It only takes a minute, but it's a hassle to do often.

[wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works]

Shit for privacy, but that should fix it

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Google rate limits IPs which breaks YouTube for many users who use shared IPs to protect themselves, including invidious users

[jagged_circle@feddit.nl]

Dont post pictures of text without transcribing it

[not_io@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

thats great ressources thank you!

[not_io@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

yes you can

[dreaming_novaling@lemmy.zip]

Even YT on browser for both my tablet and laptop have gotten mad at me and thrown a hissy for forcing me to login. Less of a problem on my Laptop, because I use Freetube to watch on there, and on my Phone I use Revanced. But man, I just hate watching on my Kindle now, because that shit is old and can barely run Firefox (got it via aurora store, not even in the Amazon appstore ) and YT on browser is ass. I tried NewPipe and it crashed all the time, so I got the for PipePipe cause I'm a weeabo, and it worked well but now I get the blocked IP every other day. My tablet crashed when I tried to download Revanced YT on there, so I gave up.