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YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances
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this post was submitted on 29 Mar 2024
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AFAIK this is not what's happening this time. YouTube slowly rolled out a change over the past 3 days that requires some sort of app verification for the android yt app. This is affecting Invidious since it emulates the yt android client to fetch video streams. This affects invidious instances hosted privately as well.
The maintainers are aware of this, and are working on ways to solve it. Tools like yt-dlp/newpipe still work because they have working implementations to fetch data by emulating web/iOS/etc clients.
Yeah, I had to update and re patch my revanced app
Was a whole process and a half for me. I ended up finally getting it though.
I'd rather just not watch YouTube if I'd have to watch it with ads through their shitty regular app.
I think it would be cool if invidious had a way of hosting content on its own. You could EEE YouTube