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

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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

Using own smaller, simpler client instead of yt-dlp, I tested the videoId mentioned in that page. No problems with IOS user agent.

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

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post #27

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…

Set your user-agent header to be a recent chrome version.

I browse the web this way and I've in total found exactly one problem on any site I've visited in the past year.

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

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Thank you _so_ much for that recommendation. I've been so frustrated that even authors I like have started to create clickbait.

Are you worried if everyone blocks revenue generating activities they will stop making the content you like?

Yes, so I support people via Patreon.

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

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post #71

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Thank you _so_ much for that recommendation. I've been so frustrated that even authors I like have started to create clickbait.

Are you worried if everyone blocks revenue generating activities they will stop making the content you like?

No. I prefer watching people who don't do it for the money.

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

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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.

YouTube is borderline unusable now. For the last 6 months when I browse to YT - on any device - I get a blank page (no suggested content) with a decoy search box in the center of the page. When I click it, focus moves from the decoy to a second, real search box which unfurls at the top, but the cursor does not move and requires a subsequent click. This means on mobile I have to tap twice - in two different locations…

>2004-era websites were more functional

Modern computing in a nutshell.

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

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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...

NewPipe still working so far.

Newpipe is amazing, just keeps on going through a lot of Google's attempts to block it.

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

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post #72

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If no one is supporting them they won't exist.

This is a false equivocation, blocking ads doesn't mean nobody will be supporting them. Anyway watching ads enriches Google far more than the creators. You can block all ads indiscriminately and send money directly to the creators you care about.

If everyone blocked ads it means exactly that. People can send money directly to the people who can set that up. If not enough people send money then the creator moves on.

Aren't you cheating yourself out of future content? Whatever you like doesn't matter to the creator.

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

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Are you worried if everyone blocks revenue generating activities they will stop making the content you like?

No. I prefer watching people who don't do it for the money.

Some of those people are in it for the money. Your interest won't matter to them.

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

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post #78
post #71

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Are you worried if everyone blocks revenue generating activities they will stop making the content you like?

I am not

Why would you want content other people pick?

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

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post #88

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No. I prefer watching people who don't do it for the money.

Some of those people are in it for the money. Your interest won't matter to them.

Their interest doesn't matter to me. I don't watch ads.
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