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I host a number of alternate frontends. Alexandrite for Lemmy, Redlib for Reddit, Invidious for Youtube. And then I have the Privacy Redirect extension make any links to Reddit or Youtube go to my local.
Ah, that seems pretty cool :D
Is Invidious still working? After the latest round of API patches on Youtube's end, I didn't think it was.
No, it doesn't seem to be. That's ashame.
There are still active instances out there. They are a pita to maintain as you'll be playing catch me fuck me with Google ad nauseam. I gave up running my own instance and just rely on the public instances since they seem to be good at whack a mole a la Google.
How do you keep Invidious running? I've tried all the alternatives like Piped, etc. I can't keep them running for more than a week before it gets banhammered by Google.
Well, its apparently borked and I didn't realize it. I've never gotten an IP ban but I also wasn't using it a ton - mostly just for when I'd search for instructions on something an a YT vid was my only option.
I mainly use Nebula for watching videos. And the handful of creators I follow who are strictly youtube, get slurped up by ytdlp via Pinchflat
That was basically what I wanted to use it for. There are several fairly reliable Invidious instances still left.
yewtu.be
comes to mind andinv.nadeko.net
. But it's hit and miss, and it gets pretty janky having to refresh the instance, then pick a new instance, then Anubis weighs your soul to see if you are allowed to view content. But, like you say, if that's the only video tut you can find..... I usually just download the video and when done, delete it. Trying to jump through YouTube's hoops is a futile endeavor. They've made it so painful to watch content on their platform while still trying to retain as much of your data as possible. Screw 'em.