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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by ndiddy on Monday June 10, 2024 @02:38PM (#40636683)
There’s comments on the issue that suggest that this is impacting any YouTube user rather than just Invidious users: https://github.com/iv-org/invidious/issues/4734#issuecomment...
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by soraminazuki on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:30PM (#40637661)
It's not just any random user. That's the mobile DDG browser that's being targeted. I guess user agents aren't allowed anymore, only spy agents that tattle on the user.
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by ai_what on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:04PM (#40637187)
yt-dlp also: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/10128
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by 1vuio0pswjnm7 on Monday June 10, 2024 @06:49PM (#40640168)
Using own smaller, simpler client instead of yt-dlp, I tested the videoId mentioned in that page. No problems with IOS user agent.
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by crtasm on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:10PM (#40637312)
NewPipe still working so far.
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by dotps1 on Monday June 10, 2024 @03:26PM (#40637578)
FYI - you can't be sure which side of the A/B test you are on.
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by crtasm on Monday June 10, 2024 @04:19PM (#40638456)
I had interpreted the news as affecting all users of the other tools. Now found https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/issues/11139 with very few comments so I don't get the impression it's affecting many NewPipe users at present.
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Re:Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps... by aio2 on Monday June 10, 2024 @09:01PM (#40641119)
Newpipe is amazing, just keeps on going through a lot of Google's attempts to block it.
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