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Invidious gone?
This morning I noticed that the snopyta instance (as well as all the other alternative instances)of invidious were down.
Invidio.us still loads, but crashes a lot. Is it going do be blocked shortly as well?
Which are the alternatives to still view yt content? Proxies?
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Fucking Google is IP banning - https://github.com/omarroth/invidious/issues/811
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I use youtube-dl with mpv or VLC to watch my YouTube content.
There is a script that can handle subscriptions.
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I can say yes, but that is a different problem for YT. Invidious is run on a server as a proxy, they can IP block that, but they can't IP block a client application without blocking the user from using YT.
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The only instance working atm for me is invidious.sh which doesn’t appear to proxy videos
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I would just self host it. Download the source code, load it up on local host and enjoy
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I tried it after seeing this and it is working fine for me right now
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It worked for me last night. Check again, or with other instanses. The list of instanses is at their github page.
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It's been working fine for me, I keep seeing these posts though.
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I wish I could try self hosting but there's no simple way to install Crystal on ARM devices. Maybe one day I'll try cross compiling. I'm on a dynamic IP too so IP banning wouldn't last TOO long I guess..
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I don't think I experienced any issues yesterday or even an hour ago, but as of right now it seems that no Invidious instances work to play videos anymore, proxied or not: "video unavailable" is shown. Some instances still show video lists and some don't. It looks like Google has made their automatic rate-limiting/banning more strict*.
Has Google finally decided to stop Invidious and defeated it in one swoop? This is very unfortunate. There was just recently a relatively big upgrade to the Invidition extension, too.
*EDIT: Or it is also technically a possibility that they have went ahead and specifically banned Invidious, since all the public instances are well... publicly shown on lists on github and invidio.us. I don't know how the onion instances work (how they access Google's servers) - can any Tor users confirm if any of those still work or are affected in the same way?
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Concerning public instances, I think to remember I've read people complaining about a ban on their local instances too.
So it's probably not bound to instances being listed somewhere.
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Older news, but good to review and keep in mind.
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https://blog.privacytools.io/delisting-wire/
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Hi everyone!
First of all, thank you for this community. Finding people with the same passion that you have its always cool :)
I created a blogseries called "De-Google my life". In it, I describe how I'm trying to ditch Google once and for all.
I first started looking for help to selfhost my email, but then I fell down a rabbit hole (a very entertaining one I might add) and now I'm even selfhosting things I never thought I would find (like Matomo)!
Things I have replaced:
Google Drive
GMail
Google Keep
Google Docs
Google Analytics
Blogger
Google Contacts
Google Calendar
Google Photos
Google Location History
Google Tasks
And a few extras that Google doesn't provide :)
You can check the progress here:
First part: https://blog.rogs.me/2019/03/15/de-google-my-life-part-1-of-_-tu-_-why-how/
Second part: https://blog.rogs.me/2019/03/22/de-google-my-life-part-2-of-_-tu-_-servers-and-emails/
Third part: https://blog.rogs.me/2019/03/29/de-google-my-life-part-3-of-_-tu-_-nextcloud-collabora/
Fourth part: https://blog.rogs.me/2019/11/20/de-google-my-life-part-4-of-_-tu-_-dokuwiki-ghost/
Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated :)
Thanks!
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Anyways, with these issues, I'm strongly considering deleting my Google Account entirely. I'm just curious if anyone here has already done so and if so, how's your digital life been as a result?
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Chromecast is one of the last few things keeping me locked in the ecosystem.
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Hey deGoogle!
As we are building an alternative to this monster, I wanna talk about what do people seek for in an alternative when they think about a search engine?
It might sound like a very silly question. But the fact of the story is is that a searching mechanism is pretty much like praying to god. Google has become the largest religion in the world. Sucking in all the data from all around us. With that, the idea behind Google was magnificent - employ people (for free) to build up a world semantic knowledge base.
I don't know if anyone here has watched La Machina (I think I got that right). If you have, you will remember that it was a search engine, that the AI software was based upon.
Semantics and search are today, yesterdays and tomorrows communication. I would like to bring up some value, and hence we believe that there must not just be just centralised alternatives to Google, but also decentralized solutions. A solution that is not controlled by any force, boundaries, etc. Solutions belonging to any kind of species.
With that said, back to my main questions. I will share a table of comparison between what we are doing and what we believe to be are the vertues of a custodial search service.
I don't think that I can post pictures due to restrictions. But this link has the table in question
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