YouTube is currently trying to block Invidious instances

[timconsidine]

My invidious (hosted on cloudron) is still working .... for now

[jdaviescoates]

Mine's still working too...

[archos]

@girish On the link I posted. Thanks to IPv6 you can easily escape this block because there are many IP addresses in a single /64 IPv6 range. (18,446,744,073,709,551,616 IP addresses to be precise)

This tutorial will explain how to automatically and periodically rotate your IPv6 address. Also some notes about how to have IPv6 in case your provider does not offer it.
One more link to Github
It may be used on other projects that depend on YouTube and/or Google (example: Piped or SearXNG).

[archos]

@timconsidine I don't know why Google was so quick to find me.

[timconsidine]

@archos I doubt it’s relevant but I’m almost totally de-googled

[archos]

@timconsidine I don't use Google anywhere, my phone has GrapheneOs and apps almost only from F-droid. I have it set up the same way on my computer.

[archos]

@girish Hi don't be angry, it's clear to me that you have a lot of work to do, and what do you think, can't you improve the Invidious instance by changing IPv6 addresses? Because if ip address rotation is not possible in cloudron, I will have to put the instance on a separate VPS. Thank you very much

[LoudLemur]

There is an IPv6 rotation tutorial here:
https://github.com/iv-org/smart-ipv6-rotator

Would Cloudron be able to create the invidious instance in such a way that it was allocated an arbitrary IP6 address from a range, and the admin could then, when necessary, set the instance to a new, arbitrary IPv6 address? This might be something for you to keep on the lookout for during your IPv6 research, @girish.

[archos]

Unfortunately, there is another problem with Invidious. It started for me yesterday and today all instances have the problem. They solve it on Github

[girish]

@archos I tried updating indivious to the latest commit, same error.

Looks like this has been reported (many times) -
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Aiv-org%2Finvidious+The+video+returned+by+YouTube+isn't+the+requested+one&type=issues

[archos]

@girish Yes, they wrote on Mastodon

[archos]

@girish I think the developers have fixed it, can you please try updating the app? Thank you very much.

[girish]

@archos updated. Can also confirm it works again with the latest update!

[LoudLemur]

@girish said in YouTube is currently trying to block Invidious instances:

@archos updated. Can also confirm it works again with the latest update!

Can also confirm that the most recent update fixes it.

Well done Cloudron!

[archos]

@girish Thank you very much, everything is already working

[archos]

Hi, so unfortunately again all instances of invidious are blocked by Google. Hopefully the developers will fix it soon. I'll let you know

[LoudLemur]

@archos It was noticeable a couple of days ago. Invidious pages didn't load right away and needed reloading. Now the video won't work at all. I think google have some digruntled former employees. Maybe they would like to help contribute code.

[archos]

@LoudLemur I hope it doesn't turn out like Nitter

[archos]

@girish Hello, the problem would be solved. Can you please update Invidious?
Thank you very much..

[LoudLemur]

Well done to those Invidious developers! Hopefully, Google will give up trying to stop them.