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.

  • warm
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    201 day ago

    Remember when people posted on YouTube for fun? It’s only when it became a viable business that the platform turned to shit.

    • @borgertwo@ani.social
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      219 hours ago

      Ah yes, youtube now is just one big ad and sponsorship cesspool flooded with clickbait and misinformation and with highly privacy invasive protocol. Its a souless capitalisic corporate machine. I dont know why people would still use it. Just let youtube die.

      • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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        13 hours ago

        I dont know why people would still use it.

        Third-party clients, ad-block and sponsorblock are the only way I can still use it LOL

        Also there simply aren’t any alternatives that aren’t alt-right cesspools or just awful to use…