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[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Google started blocking them in some way. Even my self-hosted, entirely local-access only instance stopped working.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

It got so bad that couldn’t access YouTube on their official app in my company phone without logging in.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Stop using company phones for personal use. Wtf are you thinking

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

Even YT on browser for both my tablet and laptop have gotten mad at me and thrown a hissy for forcing me to login. Less of a problem on my Laptop, because I use Freetube to watch on there, and on my Phone I use Revanced. But man, I just hate watching on my Kindle now, because that shit is old and can barely run Firefox (got it via aurora store, not even in the Amazon appstore 😭) and YT on browser is ass. I tried NewPipe and it crashed all the time, so I got the for PipePipe cause I'm a weeabo, and it worked well but now I get the blocked IP every other day. My tablet crashed when I tried to download Revanced YT on there, so I gave up.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Did you run the token generator thing? Worked for me a couple days ago (but not over a VPN).

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Shit for privacy, but that should fix it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

That works for me, for a while. I also auto-restart the invidious container stack hourly, per their recommendation. But sooner or later it fails, and usually the fix is to recreate a token. It only takes a minute, but it's a hassle to do often.