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[Personal Jesus]

The main invidious instance closed down on the start of september and right now there are only five instances operating:

Up until a few days ago they had like 10+ plus instances but it's reduced to only five now and even then, they are pretty unstable. I hope they don't end the service because the only alternative to it on pc would be Freetube but that's a desktop client only, not as convenient as a web client.

 

[hundredpercent]

The main invidious instance closed down on the start of september and right now there are only five instances operating:
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Up until a few days ago they had like 10+ plus instances but it's reduced to only five now and even then, they are pretty unstable. I hope they don't end the service because the only alternative to it on pc would be Freetube but that's a desktop client only, not as convenient as a web client.

Those are run by random, independent people.

 

[The Real SVP]

The main invidious instance closed down on the start of september and right now there are only five instances operating:
View attachment 1654102
Up until a few days ago they had like 10+ plus instances but it's reduced to only five now and even then, they are pretty unstable. I hope they don't end the service because the only alternative to it on pc would be Freetube but that's a desktop client only, not as convenient as a web client.

The problems are that the main developer quit and that the software requires constant maintenance too keep up with youtube messing with their site. There are already some big bugs and if nobody else picks up the slack invidious will stop working all together, sooner or later.

 

[George Orson Welles]

The main invidious instance closed down on the start of september and right now there are only five instances operating:
View attachment 1654102
Up until a few days ago they had like 10+ plus instances but it's reduced to only five now and even then, they are pretty unstable. I hope they don't end the service because the only alternative to it on pc would be Freetube but that's a desktop client only, not as convenient as a web client.

Snoptya is actually pretty stable for a indvid instance, what you smoking?

 

[Personal Jesus]

Those are run by random, independent people.

I know but my worries are related to the post below.

The problems are that the main developer quit and that the software requires constant maintenance too keep up with youtube messing with their site. There are already some big bugs and if nobody else picks up the slack invidious will stop working all together, sooner or later.

Yeah, maybe I worded my post wrongly, that's what I was trying to say.

Snoptya is actually pretty stable for a indvid instance, what you smoking?

Maybe it's because I'm using a VPN but all instances of invidious are unstable to me here, chances of a video working there are 50/50.

 

[George Orson Welles]

Maybe it's because I'm using a VPN but all instances of invidious are unstable tom here, they work wonderfully well and then in the next day don'

Yeah that seems to be an issue, it also could be related to issues with your adblocker/an or content blocker, I use uMatrix and for the longest time I was having issues with invid randomly crashing, somehow uMatrix was flagging a specific part of the 'frontend' or the scripts dealing with video handling, and that was the main reason. We're in a world of infinite possibilities with infinite outcomes, so it can be anything either way.

 

[Captain Chorizo]

Edit: The Twitter replacement doesn't work if someone posts a "mobile.twitter" link:

https://mobile.tw.tinf.io/leigh__sucks/status/1315034283870957568

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

There aren't too many reddit links posted here but there's a neat alternative client that's easy to redirect too. Just take a Reddit url and change reddit to ceddit

E.g.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TheDickShow/comments/j3xifz/nsfw_running_google/

Change reddit to ceddit

https://www.ceddit.com/r/TheDickShow/comments/j3xifz/nsfw_running_google/

It redirects to

https://snew.notabug.io/r/TheDickShow/comments/j3xifz/nsfw_running_google/

Which shows deleted comments.

Incidentally, if you have a link like this

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheDickShow/comments/j3xifz/nsfw_running_google/

You have to change it back to www for ceddit to work

 

[Quioui]

Just take a Reddit url and change reddit to ceddit

Ceddit is cancer in my books, the page loads but the reddit content itself never does on Firefox.
Disabling extensions is the same, it works fine on either Chrome or Chromium tho. Just the site being a cunt to foxes IMO.

 

[Gustav Schuchardt]

Ceddit is cancer in my books, the page loads but the reddit content itself never does on Firefox.
Disabling extensions is the same, it works fine on either Chrome or Chromium tho. Just the site being a cunt to foxes IMO.

That's odd. Works for me on Firefox on my Macbook. Haven't got a PC to hand to test it.

https://snew.notabug.io/r/TheDickShow/comments/j3xifz/nsfw_running_google/

Mind you, if it doesn't work for some people it does make sense that the mirror link should be in addition to the link to Reddit/Twitter/Instagram not instead of it. There will always be a few corner cases where the mirror link fails but the original link is OK.

 

[hundredpercent]

The problems are that the main developer quit and that the software requires constant maintenance too keep up with youtube messing with their site. There are already some big bugs and if nobody else picks up the slack invidious will stop working all together, sooner or later.

It would be extremely funny if KF users would pick up the slack. Then you'd have the entire codebase tainted. It would be a massive clusterfuck and lots of people would be angry.

 

[Xyllon]

Ceddit is cancer in my books, the page loads but the reddit content itself never does on Firefox.
Disabling extensions is the same, it works fine on either Chrome or Chromium tho. Just the site being a cunt to foxes IMO.

The problem is Firefox's tracking protection blocking the requests. Turn it off for Ceddit and it works.

 

[Boobie Bomb]

Finally something useful.

The main invidious instance closed down on the start of september and right now there are only five instances operating:
View attachment 1654102
Up until a few days ago they had like 10+ plus instances but it's reduced to only five now and even then, they are pretty unstable. I hope they don't end the service because the only alternative to it on pc would be Freetube but that's a desktop client only, not as convenient as a web client.

Is it possible we can get Null to help the folks behind invidious to work together and run the site? It'll be nice to try since we need more people to learn how to code.

 

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At first I asked myself "why though?"
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Then I remembered this:

We don’t block archive.is or *any other domain* via 1.1.1.1. Doing so, we believ... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com

Yes.. 'this'.. where the arguments from censorious retarded faggot Matthew Prince are refuted like a page down.

The simple fact is that Cloudflare's DNS is yet another trojan horse in their stable of trojan horses. In order to sabotage more trustworthy CDNs, they remove essential information from what is passed to archive.today's DNS servers. By removing that essential information, they can make it impossible for anyone hosting content outside of Cloudflare to do their own geographic loadbalancing. This is a deliberate, malicious choice by filthy shyster Matthew Prince.

The operator of archive.today inquired about this malicious blocking of essential information, and, after they stonewalled him, simply blocked Cloudflare's broken DNS servers.

Note that the privacy 'argument' that Prince gives for this deliberate breaking of DNS standards is 100% specious. If your computer is sending DNS requests to figure out what is the appropriate IP to communicate with 'archive.is' on, what is the exact next thing that you are going to be doing, 99.99999999999999999999999% of the time? Oh yeah, communicating directly with whatever IP it is that you get back.

Is delaying the crazy Russian from learning what subnet you're on by 50 milliseconds a 'privacy gain'? Noone in their right mind could honestly suggest that. Of course, if Cloudflare were considering launching some kind of 'service' where all your traffic went through their servers to be backdoored, rather than just most of it, that would make a lot of sense. Then you just have to trust Cloudflare to keep you safe! (If you trust Cloudflare to keep you safe, you are retarded)

And that's how we know that censorious monopolist Matthew Prince (@eastdakota) is a lying piece of shit.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

Yeah Cloudflare is a massive MitM and nobody should be okay with them fucking around with the internet in any way.

 

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Yeah Cloudflare is a massive MitM and nobody should be okay with them fucking around with the internet in any way.

Indeed. I do feel that the crazy Russian could have handled it better- perhaps divert some small percentage of Cloudflare DNS users to a shock site or something of that sort.

 

[Twinkie]

This is a good idea and all but it keeps going down for me. And because the links are word flitered there's no way to look at the original content
edit: It's failing more than it works at this point. It's annoying.
edit 2: Also it's still broken for mobile links

 

[hundredpercent]

Yes.. 'this'.. where the arguments from censorious retarded faggot Matthew Prince are refuted like a page down.

The simple fact is that Cloudflare's DNS is yet another trojan horse in their stable of trojan horses. In order to sabotage more trustworthy CDNs, they remove essential information from what is passed to archive.today's DNS servers. By removing that essential information, they can make it impossible for anyone hosting content outside of Cloudflare to do their own geographic loadbalancing. This is a deliberate, malicious choice by filthy shyster Matthew Prince.

The operator of archive.today inquired about this malicious blocking of essential information, and, after they stonewalled him, simply blocked Cloudflare's broken DNS servers.

Note that the privacy 'argument' that Prince gives for this deliberate breaking of DNS standards is 100% specious. If your computer is sending DNS requests to figure out what is the appropriate IP to communicate with 'archive.is' on, what is the exact next thing that you are going to be doing, 99.99999999999999999999999% of the time? Oh yeah, communicating directly with whatever IP it is that you get back.

Is delaying the crazy Russian from learning what subnet you're on by 50 milliseconds a 'privacy gain'? Noone in their right mind could honestly suggest that. Of course, if Cloudflare were considering launching some kind of 'service' where all your traffic went through their servers to be backdoored, rather than just most of it, that would make a lot of sense. Then you just have to trust Cloudflare to keep you safe! (If you trust Cloudflare to keep you safe, you are retarded)

And that's how we know that censorious monopolist Matthew Prince (@eastdakota) is a lying piece of shit.

That's stupid. If the DNS request is coming from from CloudFlare's PoP in Ohio, USA, the user is located somewhere in the Midwest. He's just too lazy to make special configuration for it.

 

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That's stupid. If the DNS request is coming from from CloudFlare's PoP in Ohio, USA, the user is located somewhere in the Midwest. He's just too lazy to make special configuration for it.

You're saying that actual decent people should have to make special, non-standard provisions for Cloudflare? Go fuck yourself.

 

[hundredpercent]

You're saying that actual decent people should have to make special, non-standard provisions for Cloudflare? Go fuck yourself.

The purpose is to protect their users' privacy. The alternative would be to send the IP of the PoP in the EDNS field, but that would violate the specification.