YouTube orders ‘Invidious’ to shut down in 7 days

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Well, to be honest, I’m not surprised at all by this. Invidious just got too big. YouTube did increase the amount of ads significantly lately, so it’s clear they are trying to make more money.
I’m afraid they will also block downloads in the near future.

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You can’t technically stream video without downloading it…So i wouldn’t hold my breath

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First, it’s not like I would want them to do this! But it seems like a logical step and we already know they didn’t like yt-dl.
And I’m no expert here but I guess they could find a way (or at least make downloading more complicated than it is right now).

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In order to watch the video from YouTube, your monitor has to turn on certain pixels to certain colours, and your speakers have to vibrate in a certain way to produce sound. How does the monitor know which pixels to set to which colour, and how does the speaker know how to vibrate to produce the correct sound? Well, your computer tells it how to do it, but how does your computer know? That information has to come from somewhere. It’s comes from YouTube, of course, via the internet. What do we call the process of getting information from the network? Downloading.

Streaming is downloading, just in small chunks, sequentially. If your monitor displays it, it’s already downloaded to your computer.

So, they cannot forbid you to download a video without preventing you from watching it.

The worst they can do is to put DRM on it, so that the video file is incomprehensible to the video player of your choice, but even then, if you can display it with the YouTube player, you can record it to a DRM-free format and then give it to anyone you want. They call this practice “pirating”, but it has nothing to do with robbing ships. I call it “sharing”, which is entirely appropriate. This can be automated by services like Odysee or Invidious.

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Using a program like simplescreenrecorder will still make downloading videos an easy task with no interference from Youtube who can’t control what one does on their personal system.

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If it was so easy, you would not see site support requests on yt-dlp github issues.
Checking the number of extractors :

yay -Ql yt-dlp | grep extractor | wc -l     
3110
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You obviously missed what I posted a bit later:

“And I’m no expert here but I guess they could find a way (or at least make downloading more complicated than it is right now).”
:wink:

edit Or this is maybe a misunderstanding regarding the definition of “download”. What I meant was “store to your device in a freely usable, non-encrypted, non-drm, standardized format”.

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Who said it was easy?

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FFF (Fun Fact of Forum)

Despite anti-9o0L4g sentiments running high on this forum (or at least I get the impression) and despite Invidious has been and is still around, I am perplexed by the fact that most video links posted are links to Youtube.

See for your self: What are you listening to right now? for example
:crazy_face:

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YouTube makes its money from advertising :moneybag: so taking out Invidious was not a surprising or invidious action for me.

I happily post YT links here because I use yt-dlp. If others are foolish enough to allow themselves to be profiled & probed by the 9o0L4g, that’s their lookout :clown_face:

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It seems they are just waiting it out, because they aren’t using the API, unlike what YouTube is suggesting.

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Gulag = Google ? wtf !
In this particular case, What are you listening to right now?, better spend Youtube bandwith than Invidious’.

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This is a brilliant idea! Thanks for sharing :+1:

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Thanks for this. It is a really great idea. I modified your script a bit to suit my personal usage and bound it to a shortcut. It works really nicely. I did end up launching it in konsole though so I get feedback of what is happening while it is downloading and assembling.

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:no_entry_sign: https://adguard.com/en/blog/ad-blockers-youtube-ban.html

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I suppose that sucks for people that were using that feature but I just happy the service is back.

It is ultimately something that he provides for free to the community.

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I’m much more upset with Oracle than with yewtudotbe, they should at least let him recover the data on the servers.

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Unfortunately that’s classical Oracle…they haven’t been nice for a while in that regard, so it was pretty bad choice of infrastructure for such service… :clown_face: :earth_africa:

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