Jul 28, 2025
The monsters who own Youtube seem to be getting more and more aggressive about limiting third party access. invidious has been getting spottier. It'll connect for one video, but when I go to change videos, every subsequent video will throw a 403 error. I have to change instances entirely. This is a known issue.
Freetube is the same, since it's just a desktop UI. Its saving grace is Ctrl+Shift+R will cycle through a randomized masterlist of invidious instances so I don't have to. Or I can change the instance manually. It's still obnoxious that having a usable internet is now an arms race between major corporations and hobbiests.