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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 warkdarrior »

netsharc wrote: post #36
holoduke wrote: post #18

One day all your online accounts could be blocked with the message: Your account is blocked. This helps protecting the community. In my case this kinda happened with most social networks on which my accounts are suspended. Yes my opinion is not default. But thats the issue.

Yeah, welcome to cloud feudalism (not a concept I invented). Just like the a serf in feudal lordships of old times, the lord can decide anything and you have to suffer the consequences. Maybe if you scream loud enough they'll hear you, but the castle decides, the henchmen execute and they don't listen to your protests.

If you do not make your own silicon, write your own software, and maintain your own Internet connection, you are at the mercy of vendors and service providers.

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

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Post by Marsymars »

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

YT premium unfortunately scales very poorly for low usage. I probably average about one youtube video watched per month, so while I'm not opposed to paying something, I am opposed to watching any ads, and I'm not going to pay $13/video.

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

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Post by warkdarrior »

DANmode wrote: post #22
izacus wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it strip ads?

It only loads the video and related information, if that's what you mean.

It is really YouTube's own fault for not securely embedding the ads into the videos.

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

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Post by verdverm »

karaterobot wrote: post #31
verdverm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where and how do the content creators fit into this?

Presumably many would choose to block Invidious, and many would not. It sounds like none of them get a choice in the matter, which is why it's not crazy to question whether community is used as a euphemism in this case.

> Presumably many would choose to block Invidious, and many would not.

Is this something a creator can do on their own today? How many of them are aware of Invidious?

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

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Post by lolinder »

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

And Nebula.tv is best of all. No ads, you support the content creators, and you don't feed YouTube's near-monopoly on video distribution.

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

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Post by verdverm »

Marsymars wrote: post #42
verdverm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

YT premium unfortunately scales very poorly for low usage. I probably average about one youtube video watched per month, so while I'm not opposed to paying something , I am opposed to watching any ads, and I'm not going to pay $13/video.

With the family plan, the cost calculation is very different

Blocking ads can be viewed as theft from the creators and many creators do see it this way

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

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Post by Filligree »

shepherdjerred wrote: post #25
verdverm wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Install sponsorblock, that’ll take care of that.

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

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Post by Acrobatic_Road »

I run a personal, private instance and things appear to still be working on my end. I also have some of my favorite channels backed up with tube-archivist. I hope I'm not the only one since a crackdown by Google was only a matter of time...

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

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Post by soraminazuki »

throwaway48476 wrote: post #14

And by "community" they mean business model.

Google pulling the rug on the open web after years of benefitting from it is a shitty move. Then to inject corporate propaganda into alternative frontends after making the default experience miserable, even not considering the ads, is shittier still.
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