An update on #Piped instances being down: it doesn't seem to be another breaking change on the API. It seems that YouTube is simply blocking straight away traffic that comes from known ytproxy IP addresses: https://github.com/TeamPiped/Piped/issues/2820#issuecomment-1679954723
That explains why new instances that are running on new IPs are still working (for now).
Of course there are countless ways to mitigate this (using a VPN on my server and rotating IP addresses every couple of hours could be one), but I really don't want to do this anymore.
I'm really done playing this cat and dog game with motherfucking Google. I've spent years bypassing whichever restrictions they come up with against youtube-dl, Piped and Invidious. I just want to watch my videos in peace now.
Now they've reached the point of straight away banning IP addresses. There's nothing technically challenging to bypass here anymore, no new mechanism to break, nothing that a geek like me would enjoy investigating and breaking. There's just a frustrated company struggling to remain profitable and relevant that has made it a mission to go after that 2% of users that use alternative clients, and they're just banning IP addresses like frustrated IRC admins in the 1990s.
I just wish them to die out of the most atrocious death conceivable in this universe while I move on with my life. I hope content creators will do so too, as their precious content is held hostage of a corporation that doesn't give a fuck about them, and it'll not be afraid of limiting the distribution of their content if doing so has a chance of improving their own profit line.
Come on creators, if I've gone through so much trouble to bypass YouTube's barriers was just to view your content. I'd be much happier to support you folks on any other platform.
Fabio Manganiello /
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2023-08-16 07:32:53
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