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.

  • Nima@leminal.space
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    7 hours ago

    i absolutely despise youtube. these fuckers are putting ads on paused videos now, and then this.

    they will never get better. only worse. we need regulations badly.

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          6 hours 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.

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            2 hours 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.

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          32 minutes ago

          Does anyone really post anything to Dailymotion besides blatantly unauthorized TV stuff? I can’t imagine it’d be very good vibes for anyone trying to make an honest living with original content over there.

        • Chloé 🥕@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          14 minutes ago

          iirc they tried to become a tiktok clone, no idea how it went but considering i never see anyone talk about it i doubt it went very well