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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 18:04:06 JST nixCraft 🐧

   YouTube has fully blocked Invidious https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment-2365205990 For those who don't know: Invidious is an open source alternative front-end to YouTube.

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 18:04:06 JST 翠星石

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     @nixCraft Invidious is free software, licensed under the AGPLv3-or-later (too bad they have the bad habit of not adding license headers in some places); https://raw.githubusercontent.com/iv-org/invidious/refs/heads/master/LICENSE
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     meso (meso@the.asbestos.cafe)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 18:05:42 JST meso

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     @nixCraft good lol
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     kauer (kauer@aus.social)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 22:33:51 JST kauer

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     @nixCraft sorry for possibly silly question, but what are they blocking, exactly - and why does it matter?

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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 22-Sep-2024 22:33:51 JST 翠星石

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     • kauer
     @kauer They are IP blocking public invidious instances, which are a frontend for searching for videos on youtube.
     
     invidious is quite useful, as it allows for searching for videos and being able to access links posted with the video without running proprietary malware JavaScript on your computer; https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/javascript-trap.html
     
     invidious can also be used for watching videos, although yt-dlp generally gives a better experience.
     
     So far private instances haven't been IP blocked and it seems that to use it in the future, people will need to start self-hosting invidious and only share their instance with a few close friends.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 01:56:07 JST 翠星石

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     • martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion:
     @mononoaware Yes, to host videos, you can just put a .webm on your website, or to GNU mediagoblin and/or make a .torrent for that file, or upload to a peertube instance, but that won't allow you to access videos on youtube.
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     martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion: (mononoaware@fedi.absturztau.be)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Sep-2024 01:56:08 JST martza :alpine_linux: :tor: :lainBear: :redflag: :nonbinary_potion:

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     • 翠星石
     • kauer
     @Suiseiseki
     @kauer
     or idk, exchange videos in a P2P net