honestly i know there’s other frontends still working but i’m just gonna say this… fuck youtube
i swear so many things i’ve heard about it makes me think youtube is falling off and i fear it would probably die somewhere in the future
Many videos require a login now, due to weird age restrictions. YouTube is becoming increasingly useless.
This is saddening.
I know the invidious contributors have been working on this over the last few months. Looks like they finally got there only to have youtube slam the door. That’s a real gut punch.
I already switched to running an instance at home instead of my VPS, so this news doesn’t change much for me personally but it’s a demonstration that youtube is actively seeking to block the project.
As with reddit / lemmy, I doubt a viable alternative will emerge until youtube has become well and truly offensive.
Another reason to ditch corporate pages and embrace freedom.
Have they added safety features like denying follows yet?
Also, they really need to create apps for all platforms, this would increase their popularity and usability.
Not only invidious I guess, they want the user to login when too many videos has been watched on an IP address. So also web browsers on a VPN for example
Youtube is blocking large/public instances of Invidious, not all instances.
Can we please not do the click bait/rage bait thing here?
Enshittification is progressing…
I’d rather download each video manually via yt-dlp (previously youtube-dl) than creating and using a google acoount to watch it.
Yt-fzf is still an option if you’re interested.
