https://chipp.in/news/youtube-google-has-found-a-way-to-break-invidious/ Chipp.in Tech News and Reviews Windows, Security & Privacy, Open Source and more Menu * Home * Windows * Security & Privacy * Gaming * Guides * Contact * RSS Feed Menu Privacy Don't wait for Google to end third-party cookies Why you should make use of Virtual LAN (Guest Wi-Fi) Reviews O&O ShutUp10++ RSSGuard WingetUI Invidious YouTube Playback error YouTube: Google has found a way to break Invidious Posted on March 31, 2024March 31, 2024 by Martin Brinkmann If you use Invidious to access YouTube videos, you may have noticed that most (all?) instances are broken right now. Attempts to play YouTube videos are met with error messages. Messages such as "the video returned by YouTube isn't the requested one" are thrown by Invidious instances at the time. A bug report on the official GitHub repository confirms the issue. Good news is that the team is aware of the issue. Bad, that there is no fix yet to address it. YouTube search works on all instances, but videos won't play anymore. You can try any of the listed Invidious instances or others, and you will likely get the same result. The issue was reported three days ago on the GitHub project site. Another popular YouTube frontend, Piped, appears affected as well. Attempts to play videos are met with the error code "failed with error code 1002". Google seems to have implemented changes to YouTube that break video playback functionality of the frontends. It is too early to say whether this can be fixed at all. Google seems to be tightening access to YouTube in an effort to increase revenue and lock out alternatives. Privacy conscious users like these alternatives, as they include no ads or tracking. It is quite possible that Google is going to lock down YouTube further in the future. It is probably only a matter of time. It is likely that existing alternatives and new alternatives will see huge user jumps when that happens. 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