I’ve been running invidious on my home network for over a year now, no issues other than when YouTube makes changes that break for every inv user anyway.
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irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The thing about these front ends is that Google will eventually get around to blocking your IP. After many unsuccessful attempts that got ban hammered after a week or so, I finally got it to work. I piped it through Cloudflare Tunnels/Zero Trust. Haven’t had an issue. My deployment was the Invideous with companion app. The Companion app has been complaining about being unhealthy for ages now, but it keeps right on ticking. I don’t watch a huge number of YT videos. Usually my consumption is a tutorial here or there.
sam@piefed.ca 2 months ago
Ward@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Yeah if you are running a private instance, you look like legitimate traffic to Google.
nfreak@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I route my Invidious containers through Gluetun and it usually works fine. Occasionally I need to restart the stack to change the IP but for the most part it works great.
Buck@jlai.lu 2 months ago
Yeah I don’t think any non public instance has any chance of being blocked. It simply looks like one user among millions to them.
irmadlad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Just my experience. Like I said, the only thing I use it for is to watch a tutorial without endless, unskippable ads just to find out the tut is trash.