Is this new? Does anyone what the deal is?
We are at war comrade
Probably because Google is actively and frequently banning many Piped or Invidious hosts, and is generally currently at war with “alternative frontends” to YouTube in an effort to make users browse YouTube directly and consume ads there, or buy YouTube Premium. This is in line with their current fight for more ad revenues across their products and services. You probably have to either search for another public instance which isn’t banned (yet) from accessing YouTube, or host your own instance.
Can confirm it. Self-hosting Invidious on my laptop is working.
Private frontends and decentralized social media like Funkwhale and PeerTube will really be the most accessible form of piracy ever if more people start using it this way
The problem with Peertube mass adoption are bandwidth and size of videos. Are the servers behind public instances are prepared for that …?
Nope!
I’ve had some issues with Invidious being unable to play specific videos once or twice, but the issues tend to go away after a couple of days.
I mean, we know Google and Youtube are both multi-billion-dollar corporations that are absolutely enraged by the idea that there could be any possible way for a commoner pleb like you to NOT have your online experience absolutely crammed with as many privacy violations and hyper-targeted ads as possible. Invidious having to constantly stay ahead of such powerful entities’ attempts to block them out means that some errors and periods of downtime are perfectly excusable- what’s important is continuing to support them in their fight.
The Invidious issues on public instances haven’t gone away in 1-2 months)…
But you can still self host it locally.
hell yeah
What version are you running? They released a new version of Freetube today.
both have the issue but so does individious and every single youtube frontend at the moment
Make Peertube more known! Tell your fav people on YT!
Reason I don’t use Freetube is it will never show age restricted videos because it doesn’t sign into YouTube your also limited to a max of 1080.
it used to work with age restricted videos though and their newest update allows more that 1080p.
It says “the video might be inappropriate for some users”. Afaik those videos never worked because they required login with Google account
they did work before. Maybe they got more restrictions on age restricted videos now
Recently they changed something that made age restricted content no longer work, for me both the grayjay app and ytdlp both stopped working for them a few days back
It’s the same in SmartTube. Age-restricted videos haven’t worked for a while, even if logged in.
I’ve seen them work on Freetube in the past although idk how, and maybe they no longer do
Is this ‘Sign in to protect our community’?
