Last two weeks every time I use Piped I am getting error “Sign in to confirm you are not a bot”. It happens on every instance and videos work very rarely. It seems like Google enforces you to log in if you try watch lot of videos from one IP. I hope this will not be end of Piped and there will be solution for this problem.

Upd. I got similar problem on Invidious recently

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    I operate an invidious instance. Google has really cracked down the past two weeks on YouTube front ends. Its extremely frustrating.

    Invidious devs are finalizing a workaround so hopefully things will be working again in the next week or two.

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    Seems to be a big crackdown lately. Freetube and Grayjay are the only apps that seem to consistently work.

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    I’ve noticed Invidious instances having trouble recently as well. I’m sure they’re not dead though, just need to get the next mouse for the endless cat and mouse game.

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    google has been blocking any IP that uses lots of youtube bandwidth, and that means any public instance needs to do IP rotation.

    I also heard they began blocking all IPs belonging to some cloud providers.

    I run my own invidious instance from my home servr. Only I use it, so it’ll never be blocked, but I don’t have the same anonymity as if using a public instance…

    It’s mostly for the benefits of using youtube ad-free without a google account, while having local bookmarks, watch-later, and subscription feed. If that’s your main goal Invidious is really easy to set-up.

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      My main fear of running it on my home server is they will block my IP address and my entire household can’t use Google products anymore.

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          Imagine having to explain to a casual user, SO, sibling or parent that you, while fighting to preserve your anonymity, google blocked the house. xD

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    Sometimes you can find an instance that works but you have to go through a lot of them and it may only work for a few minutes or even less. Invidious doesn’t work at all for me. I hope they find a workaround because I already started committing a very serious crime against my freedom by visiting youtube.com

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    NewPipe is broken for me. When I go to try to open the videos in my mobile browser, YouTube gives me the same error. So, YouTube itself is pretty much bricked to me on mobile, since I refuse to register an account.

    I’m unsure if the behavior would persist if I disabled my VPN, but fuck that.

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      I have had the same issue. For me the last few weeks I keep changing VPN servers due to them being blocked.

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      Same for me. Started watching youtube videos in firefox with ublock origin, works perfectly fine.

      On a side note, Smart Youtube for Android tv still works perfectly fine.

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    Now I’ve tried almost all of them in the Piped instances list (Several domain name for sale and server not found errors) and only the smnz.de one works for me. :( I am wondering whether a freshly installed self-hosted private Piped video instance will work fine.

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    The instances list is not up to date :

    https://piped.smnz.de/watch?v=bBhDWTZDH9c

    There’s probably more working instances.

    Plan B : I guess running your own Piped instance and not sharing it with a lot of people could be worth considering.

    Personally I’m sticking to https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Yt-dlp#Faster_downloads for the video downloading I do.

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    If you’re looking for an ad-free client that still works right now; In the 6 years I’ve been using YouTube (re)vanced on android, I’ve only had it fail to play videos for 1 single day around 6 months ago. That was fixed within 24hrs.

    Not quite the same as a full custom instance/frontend like piped; but it’ll do the job while you wait for updates.

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      That’s not really privacy friendly, right? I don’t exactly know how it patches the apk and what it changes but it doesn’t remove trackers. Correct me if I’m wrong

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        Ah, I should have double checked the community… Got here from /all.

        No, it’s not explicitly privacy friendly. It’s mainly focused on a wide variety of optional UX changes, returning several paywalled features like PIP/Background playback, and removing advertising as well as providing sponsor block.

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        I don’t know configuring cert always feels scary to me even though it’s probably not that difficult

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    It happens once in a while. I would continue moving instances or using over services.

    Google is actively attacking so it takes time to come up with a defense. In the end Google is just making us stronger. What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger after all.

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    I started using grayjay and although it still gets blocked sometimes restarting the app usually works