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).

EDIT: Ok, well now it looks like I can get FreeTube to work with some Mullvad locations but not others . . .

  • wuphysics87@lemmy.ml
    2·
    2 days ago

    I use invidious to search, copy the link, and use yt-dlp to download the video. You can get 1080p that way. If I wasn’t lazy, I would write a script

  • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
    1·
    3 days ago

    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 :/.

    • Hirom@beehaw.org
      0·
      3 days ago

      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.

      • N0x0n@lemmy.ml
        1·
        3 days ago

        Oho? Didn’t knew that. Thanks for the info ! Do you know what caused the residential IP block ?

        • Outside of EU?
        • To much API calls from the same source?
        • Something else?

        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?

        • Hirom@beehaw.org
          3·
          3 days ago

          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.

  • Substance_P@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    I’ve been trying for weeks. Sometimes, using a random IP address with Proton VPN works for a few hours, but eventually, Freetube (or YouTube) seems to catch on and shuts me down. Gravitywell mentioned a piped instance, which was great but only worked for a minute or two for me. I think the days of being anonymous on YouTube are over—time to move on if privacy is important to you.

    • sntx@lemm.ee
      1·
      3 days ago

      It’s gotten to a point where I get “Sign-In to confirm you’re not a bot” on my residential ip(s).

      Which I won’t, therefore no yt for me.

      Luckily I’ve got better and more entertaining things to do.

  • Zorothamya [she/her, he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
    1·
    4 days ago

    No. You could however run your own instance for yourself

    https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment-2365205990

    Hello,

    Sad news for everyone. YouTube/Google has patched the latest workaround that we had in order to restore the video playback functionality.

    Right now we have no other solutions/fixes. You may be able to get Invidious working on residential IP addresses (like at home) but on datacenter IP addresses Invidious won’t work anymore. (Some datacenter IPs may still work, but that’s a matter of time until they don’t anymore.)

    If you are interested to install Invidious at home, we remind you that we have a guide for that here: https://docs.invidious.io/installation/.

    This is not the death of this project. We will still try to find new solutions, but this might take time, months probably.

    I have updated the public instance list in order to reflect on the working public instances: https://instances.invidious.io/. Please don’t abuse them since the number is really low.

    Feel free to discuss this politely on Matrix or IRC.

  • Alas Poor Erinaceus@lemmy.mlOPEnglish
    0·
    4 days ago

    That reminds me, I think I remember reading on the FreeTube page that they recommended using a VPN with it (this was before the current issues with Mullvad); anyone know why? Are FreeTube users in any danger of being hunted down by Sundar Pichai & co.?