YouTube very recently started aggressively banning IPs, mostly non-residential and forcing sign-ins.

yt-dlp and many invidious, piped instances affected: 403 errors or "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community"

Google's concept of community is wanting you to swallow their sludge advertisement and control your speech.

I take this as a challenge.

Piped is great but it was obvious that proxying would be shut down one day.

Even though I'm busy AF, I started prototyping something to take back great Youtube content. Involves nostr, blossom and ecash. More soon

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128


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Onward 🫡


"Google's concept of community is wanting you to swallow their sludge advertisement and control your speech."

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🥲 ugh, this sucks. I use yt-dlp frequently


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why do librewolf and brave still work?


Sucks. New pipe and tubular on Android don't work


Man, and I just spun up an invidious instance for myself.


:shakingeyes:


New Pipe is working just fine for me today. Had to update to 27.1 but the awesome devs seems to have figured out a work around.


:blobyes:


new pipe and new pipe nightly are work without problems for me rn


#FOSS EVERYTHING.


It works for me but it's recently not been consistent.


Sounds cool, fuck YT anyway.


Soumds great. Thank you for working on this!


Matt Drudge warned us years ago were this is all heading to. He called it digital gulags.
NOSTr and Bitcoin can stop the totalitarian tyranny if we all get aboard.  🧡


bzzzzt 🛸


Onward 🫡


exactly


we need something far more distributed and built on open protocols


I saw this https://grayjay.app/


Very interesting

Built on https://harbor.social/

These idiots building yet another identity app

If we do it on open protocols we win


they seem to be focused on being more private


Same for me


Beeeast!


GrayJay!


My comments "disappear" on GrayJay via polycentric "login"... Nostr seems to be more reliable... I still think it's cool when I see polycentric comments on a YouTube video knowing they can't really do anything about it...


Looks like the 7.16 release solved the issue for me, I don't get the error messages from before 🤔


YouTube very recently started aggressively banning IPs, mostly non-residential and forcing sign-ins.

yt-dlp and many invidious, piped instances affected: 403 errors or "Sign in to confirm you’re not a bot. This helps protect our community"

Google's concept of community is wanting you to swallow their sludge advertisement and control your speech.

I take this as a challenge.

Piped is great but it was obvious that proxying would be shut down one day.

Even though I'm busy AF, I started prototyping something to take back great Youtube content. Involves nostr, blossom and ecash. More soon

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128