Why is there only one invidious instance left?

[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.

[zerush@lemmy.ml]

Apart of Invidious, also FreeTube, which works with Invidious, don't work well anymore, it listed the searched Videos, but they are not playable. As workarround I set the SMplayer as extern player, so I can watch the Videos, clicking on the little icon down left of the Video Thumbnail, or open the Video direct in the "Open URL" of the SMplayer. This still works fine, also with the URLs from a lot of other streaming sites. SMplayer is the Graphic interface of the Mplayer.
Anyway, Google is killing all front-ends which cut of the Video ads. I think, there is a need to search an alternative to YT (maybe Odysee?)