Google really needs to revamp their YouTube model. I'd sign up for an embedding API with a low user fee (~$0.50) and generous low volume (free) and reasonable high volume (>50k requests/month at $0.01/1k). Ad free, of course, because YouTube ads are probably not great money makers for small businesses, hence the awful commercials we see pushed and successful creators reliance on in-video promotions.
YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
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Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#12this happens every few weeks. wait for the update, or contribute
Going through the linked issue, it seems that the fix has already been merged and should be part of the next invidious release.
But it still is a fact that Google is trying to limit access to YouTube through alternatives like yt-dlp and invidious by constantly trying to break stuff.
Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#13It's already fixed - https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/pull/4552
Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#14this happens every few weeks. wait for the update, or contribute
Going through the linked issue, it seems that the fix has already been merged and should be part of the next invidious release. But it still is a fact that Google is trying to limit access to YouTube through alternatives like yt-dlp and invidious by constantly trying to break stuff.
by constantly trying to break stuff.
It's long been known that Google's weapon is change; they've been doing that with web "standards" too. For YouTube, I guess the next stage in the cat-and-mouse game is to automate fixing it, and I even dare say that this new AI stuff might come in handy for that.
Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#15Google really needs to revamp their YouTube model. I'd sign up for an embedding API with a low user fee (~$0.50) and generous low volume (free) and reasonable high volume (>50k requests/month at $0.01/1k). Ad free, of course, because YouTube ads are probably not great money makers for small businesses, hence the awful commercials we see pushed and successful creators reliance on in-video promotions.
Why would that make sense for them?
Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#16yt-dlp is still working for me, and when/if Google ever break that, I'll stop watching youtube.
How are you using it? If you come across a youtube link, do you run yt-dlp on the command line and then watch the downloaded file in a media player? Asking because I'm too lazy for that, and interested to know if there is some fancier way.
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Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#17Google really needs to revamp their YouTube model. I'd sign up for an embedding API with a low user fee (~$0.50) and generous low volume (free) and reasonable high volume (>50k requests/month at $0.01/1k). Ad free, of course, because YouTube ads are probably not great money makers for small businesses, hence the awful commercials we see pushed and successful creators reliance on in-video promotions.
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Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#18yt-dlp is still working for me, and when/if Google ever break that, I'll stop watching youtube.
How are you using it? If you come across a youtube link, do you run yt-dlp on the command line and then watch the downloaded file in a media player? Asking because I'm too lazy for that, and interested to know if there is some fancier way.
If you are too lazy for that, try the New Pipe app. Works really great. You can also have subscriptions without an account.
Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How are you using it? If you come across a youtube link, do you run yt-dlp on the command line and then watch the downloaded file in a media player? Asking because I'm too lazy for that, and interested to know if there is some fancier way.
If you are too lazy for that, try the New Pipe app. Works really great. You can also have subscriptions without an account.
I usually like to promote cool FOSS that I use, and Newpipe is a masterpiece, but I do feel reluctant to increase the popularity of something that relies on unpopularity to survive.
Re: YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious
#20Google really needs to revamp their YouTube model. I'd sign up for an embedding API with a low user fee (~$0.50) and generous low volume (free) and reasonable high volume (>50k requests/month at $0.01/1k). Ad free, of course, because YouTube ads are probably not great money makers for small businesses, hence the awful commercials we see pushed and successful creators reliance on in-video promotions.
Why would that make sense for them?
They are artificially suppressing the api value by banning uses people want. If people want to opt out of the recommendation engine and ads that makes hosting cheaper and easier for YouTube. They only do it to leverage market position and imo that's bad.