cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/22423685

EDIT: For those who are too lazy to click the link, this is what it says

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.

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.

  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 hours ago

    This is the way. Let those content creators sucking up your time be the background noise they were always meant to be.

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      tell me you don’t work in IT without telling me you don’t work in IT.

      YT is more than just thots in shorts and fake scumbag competition game show hosts.

      there’s a whole community of educators and creators that are genuinely useful and is the core of what YT used to be used for.

      • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I have a BSc in CompSci and an MSc in Cybersec and I’m actively employed as a mid level engineer in the field on a Skilled Worker Visa, doing everything from vulnerability management and triage to GRC for ISO27001 to advising product and engineering teams on implementation details for best practices and compliance for a multinational org. I think this counts as IT.

        Perhaps even more impressively though: I use Vim btw (to program in C).

        I am not necessarily trying to brag very much, only to establish my own perspective, I don’t consider myself particularly talented or intelligent - otherwise I’d have gone into research, but I am currently (and kinda always) studying to improve my skills and stay up to date.

        Just recently I decided to take a look into pentesting to learn the l33t side of things more, I started in August as something to keep my brain sane during studies for the settlement visa (Life in the UK) test, and I’ve made it to Hacker Rank on HackTheBox a week ago or so. I think I watched a grand total of one Ippsec video, the rest of everything I read.

        I don’t know where you got the “game show hosts” from my comment, and I’m not aware of this if it exists as some broader trend. I don’t see YouTube shorts it’s all blocked for me haha.

        Yes YT tutorials and whatnot are good, but they are only good as broad introductions to a topic, personal opinions, or a particular historical narrative (Dr.Chuck on C’s history for instance). Those are few good nuggets between an endless sea of scams selling you a course or some other grift.

        At a certain point you should start going a bit more in depth and reading - actively engaging with the material, move beyond simply knowing or purely copying and pasting terminal commands and understand why things work the way they do.