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Death of Piped? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 months ago by user_naa@lemmy.world to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] net00@lemm.ee 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] IllNess@infosec.pub 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] mihor@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, the horror! /s

[–] piracysails@lemm.ee 11 points 3 months ago

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