I really hope the answer is “yes,” but gosh-darned if I can find one. The FreeTube app still works as long as my VPN is off, but as for Invidious . . . (also, sorry if this has already been covered earlier).
I really hope the answer is “yes,” but gosh-darned if I can find one. The FreeTube app still works as long as my VPN is off, but as for Invidious . . . (also, sorry if this has already been covered earlier).
Self-hosted piped/invidious still working great if you want to follow this route. Everything from no-ads/sponsor block/comments works without any issues.
One downside however, is that you’re exposing your own public IP to Google/YouTube :/.
YouTube has blocked a bunch of IP ranges, including residential ones, forcing people to use an account to watch videos. So self-hosting isn’t an option for everyone.
Oho? Didn’t knew that. Thanks for the info ! Do you know what caused the residential IP block ?
I mean, I don’t see way they would block residential IPs with normal api calls from the same source. Or are they full enforcing the account thing on everyone?
I don’t know. My ISP doesn’t know. And I won’t bother interacting with Google’s non-existing support.
My solution is moving away from YouTube whenever possible, for instance subscripting to podcast instead when a creator has a podcast with the same content.
Luckily most casts are just an RSS feed so you do not need an special tooling. It is a real shame many are putting their content behind walls like Spotify.
Yes, but many YouTube channels don’t have a RSS podcast equivalent. YouTube is somewhat of a walled garden, like Spotify is.