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Many dead invidious instances

Open vinoff opened this issue 3 years ago • 9 comments

Here are some dead instances:

https://invidious.silkky.cloud/

https://vid.mint.lgbt/

https://invidiou.site

https://invidious.048596.xyz

https://invidious.tinfoil-hat.net

https://inv.skyn3t.in

vinoff avatar Feb 11 '22 08:02 vinoff

https://rtbstream.com

vinoff avatar Feb 11 '22 08:02 vinoff

invidious.xyz/

vinoff avatar Feb 11 '22 08:02 vinoff

https://invidious.himiko.cloud

vinoff avatar Feb 11 '22 09:02 vinoff

I recommend using https://invidious.kavin.rocks and https://yewtu.be. Both of them have high uptime and rarely go down.

m77e4t avatar Feb 13 '22 04:02 m77e4t

Wouldn't it be better to auto-fetch current instances from things like https://redirect.invidious.io/ or https://github.com/zedeus/nitter/wiki/Instances or https://searx.space/ instead of maintaining a hardcoded list? It should of course be possible to disable to prevent unwanted calls to these websites if one wishes.

mooreye avatar Feb 15 '22 19:02 mooreye

I could work on this ticket if that is okay? 😄

aaronkurz avatar Feb 21 '22 08:02 aaronkurz

Similar open issues https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/issues/171 https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/issues/48 https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/issues/101 and others, where the community is unable to solve it for 2-3 years.

A guy was asking $20 to solve the issue :) https://github.com/SimonBrazell/privacy-redirect/issues/171#issuecomment-825743559

If someone is actually able to solve it (in a privacy preserving manner) it will be pretty good.

m77e4t avatar Feb 21 '22 09:02 m77e4t

I think for invidious, we could just poll the HTTP endpoint https://api.invidious.io/instances.json?sort_by=type,health and randomize for the top instances. It would not be a very big performance impact imho. (and if that api turns out to be inaccurate, pinging each item on the list and excluding the instances returning anything else than 2xx status codes would also be feasible)

aaronkurz avatar Feb 21 '22 12:02 aaronkurz

https://invidious.himiko.cloud

This one actually redirects to a domain that has been taken over by a spam site riddled with trackers. Highly recommend this issue gets fixed and be sure to remove this entry.

mfed3 avatar Apr 01 '22 02:04 mfed3