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What's happening to Invidious instances? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 3 weeks ago by SolarPunker@slrpnk.net to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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It seems that YouTube is killing them all but I don't know the technical details, via FreeTube I noticed, from this link (https://api.invidious.io/), that there are very few left and they require signup, and probably financial support from users.

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 weeks ago

I have been using freetube with the “local api” setting for a long time without having problems but recently I notice that some videos are not loading.