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Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by kelnos »

nraynaud wrote: post #16
verdverm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying for YT premium is even better. No ads and you support the content creators

you still get the baked-in ads, and I get weird ads when watching video embedded in other websites.

SponsorBlock generally works well for auto-skipping the baked-in ads, but of course only works on the website, not in the YT app.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by skyyler »

nraynaud wrote: post #16
verdverm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Paying for YT premium is even better. No ads and you support the content creators

you still get the baked-in ads, and I get weird ads when watching video embedded in other websites.

If you get baked-in ads, it's because of the editor of the video you're watching, not YouTube.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by shepherdjerred »

verdverm wrote: post #13
dsalfdslfdsa wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>Maybe they should focus on improving their frontend They have. Do you know how many ads they can stuff into people's faces now? Youtube is unbearable without ablock. If there are people who are able to watch it like that, then it shows just how long you can boil the proverbial frog.

Paying for YT premium is even better. No ads and you support the content creators

I used YT premium until I realized I was still getting ads from the videos themselves.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by Anarch157a »

izacus wrote: post #11
iskander wrote: post #2

What is Invidious? An alternative front-end to Google-hosted video content?

Does it strip ads?

Yes, and it supports Sponsor Block, to skip promotions built into the videos, like those annoying VPN sponsorships.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by apantel »

robotnikman wrote: post #5

I use individious because the current youtube frontend is bloated and slow on firefox. Maybe they should focus on improving their frontend instead of blocking frontends that other people prefer.

I’ve been using Firefox for maybe 15 years. It has always been great. But in the past year or so, I’m finding that more and more web experiences are buggy and slow in Firefox, which is really frustrating.

I don’t know if it’s that developers don’t do sufficient QA testing in Firefox, or the creators of Firefox have fallen behind.

Either way it doesn’t bode well. I’m being forced to reach for Chrome more and more just to get certain websites to work, especially ChatGPT. It is way buggier in Firefox than Chrome. It feels like OpenAI doesn’t have a single person doing QA testing in Firefox, and why should they? It’s a sliver of the market.

If anyone at Mozilla/Firefox is reading this, this is really bad. This is the kind of thing that signals the death of something in the not too distant future.

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by ai_what »

ndiddy wrote: post #9

There’s comments on the issue that suggest that this is impacting any YouTube user rather than just Invidious users: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...

yt-dlp also: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128

Re: Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"

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Post by AuthConnectFail »

throwaway48476 wrote: post #20
verdverm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where and how do the content creators fit into this?

Most creators only have a small percentage of revenue from ads. A lot of the creators I like are demonetized anyways. Superchats and paid comments are way more lucrative than ads. Google is in the malvertising business. Creators are not.

this is just not true, even the huge creators mention that it's usually 30-50% of their revenue.
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