Is this new? Does anyone what the deal is?
Probably because Google is actively and frequently banning many Piped or Invidious hosts, and is generally currently at war with "alternative frontends" to YouTube in an effort to make users browse YouTube directly and consume ads there, or buy YouTube Premium. This is in line with their current fight for more ad revenues across their products and services. You probably have to either search for another public instance which isn't banned (yet) from accessing YouTube, or host your own instance.
Can confirm it. Self-hosting Invidious on my laptop is working.
Private frontends and decentralized social media like Funkwhale and PeerTube will really be the most accessible form of piracy ever if more people start using it this way
The problem with Peertube mass adoption are bandwidth and size of videos. Are the servers behind public instances are prepared for that ..?
Reason I don't use Freetube is it will never show age restricted videos because it doesn't sign into YouTube your also limited to a max of 1080.
it used to work with age restricted videos though and their newest update allows more that 1080p.
It says "the video might be inappropriate for some users". Afaik those videos never worked because they required login with Google account
they did work before. Maybe they got more restrictions on age restricted videos now
Recently they changed something that made age restricted content no longer work, for me both the grayjay app and ytdlp both stopped working for them a few days back
