Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?
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/invidiousI’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.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
I think the best thing to do is selfhosting your own instance :/ piped is doing a great job with their script to install with docker ! Yes I know this takes away the privacy feature allowing google to get your public IP and other annoying metadata… However all the rest works as expected !
It has some quirks right now though… But they are very close in solving the issue (already done with LibreTube ).
If it takes away the privacy, why do it at all?
No sponsors, no ads, customizable and watch YouTube videos without a premium account?
Edit1: Lighter UI
Edit2: There’s a way to use a VPN and split tunneling but didn’t dug that far right now. So it’s still possible to have the privacy feature if that’s against your threat model/privacy concerns.
And lighter UI. Pretty important for when you’re on a system with limited ram, like the steam deck.
its just the ip, you can use a vpn
Best thing you can do is host it yourself, and keep it private. Doing this has helped with preventing with IPs getting blocked.
There is also nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev But I don’t know where I found it.
Tyler themselves has several instances, including hosting other alternative frontends.
Dont post pictures of text without transcribing it
You can dig deep for instances not on the list but this isn’t recommended
Because Google are dicks.
Google rate limits IPs which breaks YouTube for many users who use shared IPs to protect themselves, including invidious users
Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.
It got so bad that couldn’t access YouTube on their official app in my company phone without logging in.
Stop using company phones for personal use. Wtf are you thinking
Make me.
I mean I’m just trying to help.
Just so you know, this attitude is signing the “I acknowledge I’m stepping in shit and have no right to complain when shit gets on me later” line.
I’m not trying to side with your boss here, this advice is for your own good.
Dude. I don’t care about what you think.
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.
