Did the others all decide to quit or is there a practical reason?
Because Google are dicks.
YouTube has been cracking down on alternative frontends.
Vanilla Invidious currently doesn’t work well,
so most hosters paused and/or gave up.Fijxu runs a fork of Invidious,
with their own modifications implemented to circumvent the blocks,
here’s the source code if you’re interested:
https://git.nadeko.net/Fijxu/invidiousI’ve got big respect for Fijxu,
he’s been doing a very good job of keeping Invidious alive + fighting against the YouTube crackdown lately, basically all on his own.If you can please consider:
- Donating for their work/hosting
- Hosting their fork on your own
- Solving open issues with pull requests to their fork
All the above can help Fijxu,
since currently he’s mostly fighting a big tech giant all on his own.Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.
It got so bad that couldn’t access YouTube on their official app in my company phone without logging in.
Did you run the token generator thing? Worked for me a couple days ago (but not over a VPN).
That works for me, for a while. I also auto-restart the invidious container stack hourly, per their recommendation. But sooner or later it fails, and usually the fix is to recreate a token. It only takes a minute, but it’s a hassle to do often.
I haven’t, no.
You can dig deep for instances not on the list but this isn’t recommended
There is also nyc1.iv.ggtyler.dev But I don’t know where I found it.
Tyler themselves has several instances, including hosting other alternative frontends.
Is it a cool game? Can you host your own?
It’s a YouTube front end.
