Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error “Sign in to confirm you are not a bot”. It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.

Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently

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I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.

Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.

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Seems to be a big crackdown lately. Freetube and Grayjay are the only apps that seem to consistently work.

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Grayjay is proprietary, so I don’t think it is very good for privacy and freedom

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Newpipe appears to be working

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FreeTube also doesn’t work well

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The advantage of FreeTube is that if it doesn’t work, it can use an Invidious instance as a fallback.

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Invidious doesn’t work now lol

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I’ve noticed Invidious instances having trouble recently as well. I’m sure they’re not dead though, just need to get the next mouse for the endless cat and mouse game.

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You can usually find an invidious instance if you look through redirect.invidious.io. For example, if I try the servers for https://redirect.invidious.io/watch?v=aQsWzL7_RiI the 6th one down currently works.

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Yeah I usually just follow the “try another instance” links until one works.

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Seen the same thing. You have to hop around to get high quality

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Same thing I’ve noticed with invidious instances lately. My clipious on Android is broken more often than not. Freetube still seems solid although I think they each use different apis.

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google has been blocking any IP that uses lots of youtube bandwidth, and that means any public instance needs to do IP rotation.

I also heard they began blocking all IPs belonging to some cloud providers.

I run my own invidious instance from my home servr. Only I use it, so it’ll never be blocked, but I don’t have the same anonymity as if using a public instance…

It’s mostly for the benefits of using youtube ad-free without a google account, while having local bookmarks, watch-later, and subscription feed. If that’s your main goal Invidious is really easy to set-up.

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My main fear of running it on my home server is they will block my IP address and my entire household can’t use Google products anymore.

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Oh, the horror! /s

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Imagine having to explain to a casual user, SO, sibling or parent that you, while fighting to preserve your anonymity, google blocked the house. xD

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Same discussion from 4 days ago with the link to the respective Github issue: https://lemmy.ml/post/18936433

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