YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
A change on YouTube appears to have broken video playback on Invidious, Piped, and other YouTube frontends.
its working again lol
I updated the docker image and still getting this error . It's been a few days like this.
They've been doing it for a while. Since June of last year or something. They have ipv6 rotation tools to get around it now. But youtube is basically ip banning instances.
Its fixed now
Invidious uses scraping instead of the official Youtube API, so this is expected to happen from time to time..
Google is going to keep finding ways to break these front-ends as they search for ways other than ads to monetize their services. I fully expect they will eventually lockout the public API so only the official app can use it in that quest as well. In my opinion the front-ends are just a bandaid and the real solution is something other than YouTube completely, if that is even possible at this point.
All of the front-end solutions are telling Google is that people want that content and they will come to YouTube for it one way or the other, Google just needs to figure out how to force people down the workflow that gets them the most money.
Invidious does not rely on the api, its a scraper
Wasn’t talking about Invidious with that bit of my comment as I am aware they don’t use the api. I meant for things that do use the api.
Peertube?
The only actual solution is switching to open/public infrastructures.
Nothing else is an actual solution.
That would be a really fast way for me to stop spending any of my time on youtube I guess.
They'd be doing me a huge favor if they go aheadwith this plan.
It does seem like they moved their focus away from ublockO to focus on the front ends, though. While I can’t use invidious, I can use regular ol’ YT with UblockO activated and I’m not constantly having to fight and wait for an update.
I think it’s funny those pricks are fighting a multi front battle that they’re clearly losing lol
Hopefully it gets sorted out soon. I wish if I HAD to pay money for youtube I could do it in a way thats data respecting.
It's already fixed with the March 31st release. Some instances are just not updated yet.
Lol, nice.
They broke everything even revanced, had to scour for a new patch since only newpipe still worked but I can't access the watch later playlist on it.
The moment I notived revanced has stopped working for me a new version was already available that worked. I guess ot might've been a staged rollout?
Revanced has been crashing for me every single time I try to patch something, is that why? 🤔 I was gonna submit a bug report tomorrow.
Dont know about you, but i had to reset my phone and it fixed a lot of the issues i was having.
Yeah, try this out.
Yup. I had to patch 19.09.37 and I'm back to working. Also microG 0.3.1.3.240913.
Remember when you didn't have to red queen your hacker shit to watch funny videos?
God I feel old. I'm so sick of this shit.
Too late, one small change and it works. Just some params.
I kinda stop using these services after a while. I want the recommendation algorithm.
Meh, discoverability isn't really as much of a problem as people think it is. Add videos to your Watch Later from your Subscriptions tab, and as YouTubers you like do collaborations or recommendations, you'll discover similar channels. Sometimes you'll find a channel from a creator's website or from a podcast, or from a social media feed you follow (reverse-chrono or most-liked only, please). It's a world-wide web, and as much as companies try to sell you the myth of discoverability-as-a-service, that's just a marketing tool. They need it to push ads and drive retention. You don't need it at all, because the web already does that.
I'm almost entirely off of black-box recommendation algorithms, and I still find new things I like. In fact, my to-watch, to-read, and to-listen queues are too big to handle in a reasonable amount of time. I regularly have to unsubscribe from things I don't like as much anymore or risk getting deluged with too many things I want to see. But the bonus is, I don't get anything I don't want to see.
Write your own algorithm. It's a better life, and it barely takes any more time or effort. Just change your bookmarks and be willing to put in an extra click or two when you want to consume something.
Seconded, the recommendations can help you discover new things, that you didn't even know existed.. that said, I can't stand having someone stalk and monetize your every move.
I quite like it precisely because it provided no recommendations. I'm not enticed to waste time watching something I wasn't interested in 3 seconds ago. If I want to watch something I have to look it up and that's usually the end of it.
Just the opposite for me, I disconnected because I'm done with Google, now I want to stay way so the algorithm can't find me. I'll check what I want to check, when I want it.
It's fine tbh, but YouTube is really running out of great contents these days, and you have to constantly check the sources before being gaslighted. I would rather take my pace and search up things when I wanted.
why are people downvoting you for wanting to use the algorithm recommendations?
Same. I have new pipe on my phone but end up using the official app with premium more often.
The change the Youtube front end code now and then, breaking yt-dlp temporarily until someone checks in a patch.
When i noticed i checked the github to see there was an active bug report.
24 hours later they where talking about a fix that was on its way.
I updated this morning and all is well.
Okay but imagine if you didn't have all this wasted oppositional bullshit, and we just built open architectures.
It says that Piped is affected as well. This is probably a dumb question from me, but I use NewPipe in my phone to access YT - and it did not cause any trouble yet. I heard that the Piped project also uses NewPipe Extractor under the hood (which basically scrapes YT website). So why would Piped break but not NewPipe ?
Unless Google implements a severe restriction on access to the YouTube API or imposes the requirement to be logged in to a verified Google account, every solution will not be 100%
Why am I not surprised?
Umm, months ago already?
yeah I can see why they don't want invidious having access to their platform