[Bug] "This helps protect our community." · Issue #4734 · iv-org/invidious
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Update 21/09/2024: #4734 (comment) EDIT by @unixfox: The Invidious team is aware of this issue. It appears that it affects all the software using YouTube. Please refrain from commenting if you have...

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.

  • @Petter1@lemm.eeEnglish
    1•2 months ago

    Youtube is now big enough for not caring about the network effect.

    1. Start companies
    2. make a free product with network effect
    3. gain a lot of users
    4. now that you have your user base, user growth is not as relevant anymore and therefore network effect is not needed anymore
    5. enshitificate for more ad revenue, more tracking and direct subscriptions
    6. profit (finally after decades)

    Capitalism is just fucked 🤷🏻🏴‍☠️

    • @Excrubulent@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1•2 months ago

      What? No, the network effect is why they have a dominant position. The network effect comes from their user base.

      Enshittification is how platforms die, it’s not a winning business model, it’s just an outworking of capitalism’s contradictions.

      The way you wrote that shows you don’t understand the principles at all.

      I could explain further but you’d have to express interest.