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YouTube is severely rate limiting Invidious instances (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 7 months ago by anticurrent@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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Today most Invidious instances are experiencing very harsh ip address rate limiting, it is becoming very very hard to watch yt videos through

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[-] divergent_hierarchy@reddthat.com 1 points 7 months ago

Others mentioned Freetube, but note also that you could just host your own Invidious instance on localhost.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 1 points 7 months ago

Yes but my point was thats very difficult compared to a native app without a web server stack

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